worthless

adjective

worth·less | \ ˈwərth-ləs

Definition of worthless

1a : lacking worth : valueless worthless currency

b : useless worthless to continue searching

2 : contemptible, despicable a worthless criminal

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Synonyms & Antonyms for worthless

Synonyms

chaffy, empty, junky, no-good, null, vain, valueless

Antonyms

useful, valuable, worthy

Examples of worthless in a Sentence

The boots may be nice, but they're worthless if they don't fit you. She's depressed and believes that she's worthless.

Recent Examples on the Web

The trend is sparking a growing inequity between Venezuelans with dollars and those stuck with an increasingly worthless local currency, the bolivar. — Santiago Pérez, WSJ, "Venezuela’s ‘Two Realities’: People With Dollars and Those Without," 25 Mar. 2019 Bills of the near-worthless local currency, the bolívar, are incredibly scarce — with the government having a hard time even paying for the paper needed to print them. — Anthony Faiola, The Seattle Times, "Venezuela’s inflation rate may hit 1,000,000 percent," 24 July 2018 Some Venezuelan artists are making a point, and art, out of the country's now near-worthless currency. — Manuel Rueda, The Christian Science Monitor, "As inflation devastates Venezuela, artists make purses and paintings out of bills," 10 May 2018 Those reagents, which the Health Ministry and the Institute of Social Security import to distribute to public institutions here, are priced in dollars, making them expensive in the local currency, the near-worthless bolívar. — Rachelle Krygier, Washington Post, "Venezuela faces a terrible new crisis: A critical shortage of blood," 8 Mar. 2018 Photographer: Wil Riera/Bloomberg Falcon is campaigning on a plan to remedy Venezuela's economic meltdown by swapping its near-worthless bolivar with the U.S. dollar as Ecuador and El Salvador have done. — Philip Brian Tabuas, Bloomberg.com, "Venezuela Votes in a Presidential Election. Enthusiasm Is Absent," 19 May 2018 Starbreeze took in money from investors with a rights issue and bought Overkill with shares, but, according to people familiar with the deal, Starbreeze was in such a terrible financial position that these shares were essentially worthless. — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, "This week in games: The sordid tale of Starbreeze's stumbles, Overwatch players learn piano (with guns)," 1 Feb. 2019 Investors soon deemed the debentures worthless after the government blocked a plan to let Econet back them with dollars held abroad. — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, "Virtual-Cash Treasure in Zimbabwe Sparks Fight Over Billions," 2 Jan. 2019 Thailand's military drew criticism and ridicule in 2010 when the GT200 bomb detectors — which were claimed to also be capable of detecting drugs and other substances — were exposed as worthless pseudo-scientific instruments. — Kaweewit Kaewjinda, Fox News, "Thai businessman convicted of selling fake bomb detectors," 27 Sep. 2018

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