1
as in impractical
not capable of being put to use or account
a garage full of useless junk
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2
as in futile
producing no results
a useless attempt to reach an agreement
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Recent Examples of useless
Figuring his bats were pretty much useless, Cash brought a table leg to the box.
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Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Space-time quantities like position, curvature and duration might be useless for describing a singularity.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2025
Nihilism is a philosophy that rejects values and beliefs and views existence as useless.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 19 May 2025
And beyond… Generalizations can be either good or bad, useful or useless.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
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Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Space-time quantities like position, curvature and duration might be useless for describing a singularity.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2025
Nihilism is a philosophy that rejects values and beliefs and views existence as useless.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 19 May 2025
And beyond… Generalizations can be either good or bad, useful or useless.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for useless
Adjective
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Adding more throughput is unwieldy and impractical.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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Maison Irem Pearl Bow Shoe Charms While swapping standard nylon laces for pearl strands might be an impractical venture, clipping on two little pearl bows at your sneakers’ centers is an effortless maneuver that will pay dividends in sheer beauty.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
29 May 2025
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The fight against short-term rentals, after all, can be futile.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
6 June 2025
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But without Congress actually enacting the DOGE cuts into law, history will show this entire exercise to have been largely futile.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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There is also no indication that Israel has rendered unusable Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium.—
Richard Nephew,
Foreign Affairs,
14 June 2025
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But for anyone who has ever returned from a conference with a collection of illegible notes and unusable photos, the promise is clear: better technology can preserve more value with significantly less effort.—
Roger Dooley,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Barca even took a legal case against the regulations to a Catalan court but were unsuccessful.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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The family's attempts to halt Oliva's deportation were unsuccessful.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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Any useless, toxic or otherwise unsuitable man can become a child’s legal father, without being subject to the thorough checks that these women must face.—
Catherine Bray,
Variety,
23 May 2025
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Advertisement Advertisement Some insects are adapting to changing climates by moving to regions that might have previously been unsuitable.—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
20 May 2025
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“Useless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/useless. Accessed 22 Jun. 2025.
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