Useless
adjective
Something or someone that is not effective or does not do anything helpful.
His efforts to solve the problem were completely useless.
Often appears as...
- completely useless
- utterly useless
adjective
Not able to give service or aid, lacking use.
The car is useless without fuel.
Often appears as...
- useless without
- relatively useless
adjective
Having no ability or skill in a specified activity or area.
He is useless in the kitchen.
Often appears as...
- useless at
- useless in
adjective
Something or someone that is not effective or does not do anything helpful.
His efforts to solve the problem were completely useless.
Often appears as...
- completely useless
- utterly useless
adjective
Not able to give service or aid, lacking use.
The car is useless without fuel.
Often appears as...
- useless without
- relatively useless
adjective
Having no ability or skill in a specified activity or area.
He is useless in the kitchen.
Often appears as...
- useless at
- useless in
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Use 'useless' to express frustration or disappointment in something's performance.
Buying that cheap vacuum was useless; it doesn't clean at all.
Pro Tip 2/3Unhelpful Efforts
Use 'useless' when someone's attempt to help has no positive outcome or makes no difference.
I know you tried to fix the leak, but it was a useless effort.
Pro Tip 3/3Extent of Uselessness
Combine 'useless' with words like 'completely' or 'utterly' to stress the total lack of effectiveness.
His advice was utterly useless in that situation.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Use 'useless' to express frustration or disappointment in something's performance.
Buying that cheap vacuum was useless; it doesn't clean at all.
Pro Tip 2/3Unhelpful Efforts
Use 'useless' when someone's attempt to help has no positive outcome or makes no difference.
I know you tried to fix the leak, but it was a useless effort.
Pro Tip 3/3Extent of Uselessness
Combine 'useless' with words like 'completely' or 'utterly' to stress the total lack of effectiveness.
His advice was utterly useless in that situation.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Use 'useless' to express frustration or disappointment in something's performance.
Buying that cheap vacuum was useless; it doesn't clean at all.
Pro Tip 2/3Unhelpful Efforts
Use 'useless' when someone's attempt to help has no positive outcome or makes no difference.
I know you tried to fix the leak, but it was a useless effort.
Pro Tip 3/3Extent of Uselessness
Combine 'useless' with words like 'completely' or 'utterly' to stress the total lack of effectiveness.
His advice was utterly useless in that situation.
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Where good ideas come...
So you end up having this problem where you spend all this money getting aid and all these advanced electronics to these countries, and it ends up being useless. So what Prestero and his team decided to do was to look around and What are the abundant resources in these developing world contexts? And what they noticed was,
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Why you should make...
and I was sharing that enthusiasm with other people. To me that's the true beauty of making useless things, because it's this acknowledgment that you don't always know what the best answer is. And it turns off that voice in your head that tells you that you know exactly how the world works.
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Myths and misconceptions...
reproduction is. And the world if full of creatures like the male anglerfish, which is so small and ill-suited for survival at birth that it has to quickly find a mate before it dies. But at least we can say that if an organism dies without reproducing, it's evolutionarily useless, right?
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Poverty isn't a lack of...
but by the amount of happiness you spread and the amount of meaning you give. I believe in a future where the point of education is not to prepare you for another useless job but for a life well-lived. I believe in a future where an existence without poverty is not a privilege
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The Smallest Bones in...
mineral rich and this makes them really hard but quite fragile this would be useless and something like our femur in our thigh because all that weight bearing and twisting it was simply shatter but whereas these little bones are protected deep with inside the skull
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How Pharaohs Projected...
scattered across the site. As you can see here, this area of the temple is full of pot shells. But unfortunately this material is completely useless for us because it's out of a secure context. Cannot tell us anything about the life of the temple.
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How computer memory...
Solid-state drives also have an additional weakness. Repeatedly writing to floating gate transistors corrodes them, eventually rendering them useless. With data on most current storage media having less than a ten-year life expectancy,
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What's so sexy about...
more than one billion web pages -- do you want to go through them all? Computing power helps, but it would be useless without the mathematical modeling to find the information hidden in the data. Let's work out a baby problem.
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Are we in control of our...
in the middle, was useless in the sense that nobody wanted it. But it wasn't useless in the sense that it helped people figure out what they wanted. In fact, relative to the option in the middle,
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The ecological knowledge...
and she said because it starts with I it took me much time to figure out that all I plants and goggle language are considered to be useless while all mu
Video examples
Where good ideas come...
So you end up having this problem where you spend all this money getting aid and all these advanced electronics to these countries, and it ends up being useless. So what Prestero and his team decided to do was to look around and What are the abundant resources in these developing world contexts? And what they noticed was,
Video examples
Why you should make...
and I was sharing that enthusiasm with other people. To me that's the true beauty of making useless things, because it's this acknowledgment that you don't always know what the best answer is. And it turns off that voice in your head that tells you that you know exactly how the world works.
Video examples
Myths and misconceptions...
reproduction is. And the world if full of creatures like the male anglerfish, which is so small and ill-suited for survival at birth that it has to quickly find a mate before it dies. But at least we can say that if an organism dies without reproducing, it's evolutionarily useless, right?
Video examples
Poverty isn't a lack of...
but by the amount of happiness you spread and the amount of meaning you give. I believe in a future where the point of education is not to prepare you for another useless job but for a life well-lived. I believe in a future where an existence without poverty is not a privilege
Video examples
The Smallest Bones in...
mineral rich and this makes them really hard but quite fragile this would be useless and something like our femur in our thigh because all that weight bearing and twisting it was simply shatter but whereas these little bones are protected deep with inside the skull
Video examples
How Pharaohs Projected...
scattered across the site. As you can see here, this area of the temple is full of pot shells. But unfortunately this material is completely useless for us because it's out of a secure context. Cannot tell us anything about the life of the temple.
Video examples
How computer memory...
Solid-state drives also have an additional weakness. Repeatedly writing to floating gate transistors corrodes them, eventually rendering them useless. With data on most current storage media having less than a ten-year life expectancy,
Video examples
What's so sexy about...
more than one billion web pages -- do you want to go through them all? Computing power helps, but it would be useless without the mathematical modeling to find the information hidden in the data. Let's work out a baby problem.
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Are we in control of our...
in the middle, was useless in the sense that nobody wanted it. But it wasn't useless in the sense that it helped people figure out what they wanted. In fact, relative to the option in the middle,
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The ecological knowledge...
and she said because it starts with I it took me much time to figure out that all I plants and goggle language are considered to be useless while all mu
Example 1 of 10
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Henry Mayhew
English Journalist
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
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Gaby Hoffmann
American Actress
I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!
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Giacomo Casanova
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It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
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Esther Williams
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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
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George Ade
American Playwright
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
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George S. Patton
American General
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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Marlon Brando
American Actor
I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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John Bradley-West
English Actor
I'm useless with a sword in real life.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
A useless life is an early death.
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Henry Mayhew
English Journalist
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
Quote examples
Gaby Hoffmann
American Actress
I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!
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Giacomo Casanova
Italian Celebrity
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
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Esther Williams
American Actress
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
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George Ade
American Playwright
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
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George S. Patton
American General
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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Marlon Brando
American Actor
I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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John Bradley-West
English Actor
I'm useless with a sword in real life.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
A useless life is an early death.
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