Explore Useless through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like ineffectual or unprofitable. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Useless meaning
- Without use or the possibility to be used.
- Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
- Good-for-nothing; not dependable.
Synonyms of Useless
Using Useless
- The main meaning on this page is: Without use or the possibility to be used. | Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action). | Good-for-nothing; not dependable.
- Useful related words include: ineffectual, unprofitable, unserviceable, uneffective.
- In the example corpus, useless often appears in combinations such as: is useless, useless and, useless to.
Context around Useless
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Useless
- In this selection, "useless" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, words, ukraine, completely, stereotyping, people and raising stand out and add context to how "useless" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all relatively useless from a and almost entirely useless. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "useless" sits close to words such as bengaluru, catastrophic and discusses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with useless
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And please, ignore the useless people there. (7 words)
He was full of useless facts which made everyone laugh. (10 words)
A program that audits logs after an event is useless, he said. (12 words)
All that isn't to say that Wolverine doesn't get some licks in, he slices at the Predator's mask, rendering his breathing apparatus useless and forcing the Predator to take his mask off. (35 words)
Along with him enjoying poetry as an outlet that means something to many and is useless within the world, his main goal is that students will realize that it is okay to be creative. (34 words)
Before you know it, they’ll be pushing the next booster vaccine heavily and trying to get everyone to mask up again, despite masks having been shown to be almost entirely useless. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Asking that his hands be raised to his face so that he could see them, Booth uttered his last words, "Useless, useless," and died as dawn was breaking.
As Paul the Apostle stated: "If Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless".
It was useless to the U.S. Army as a staging base and useless to the U.S. Navy as a fleet base.
A barrage of hypersonic missiles from Russia would render the new offensive by Ukraine useless.
According to them, it is a biological reaction that happens when a person feels that their life has no purpose and they are useless to society.
After her ex proves to be completely useless in disciplining Alice, Kat decides it’s time for a new start.
All that isn't to say that Wolverine doesn't get some licks in, he slices at the Predator's mask, rendering his breathing apparatus useless and forcing the Predator to take his mask off.
Along with him enjoying poetry as an outlet that means something to many and is useless within the world, his main goal is that students will realize that it is okay to be creative.
A lot of useless stereotyping, big belt buckles and cowboy hats and accents.
Although saving the game and Tera Raids in have challenged the Master Ball, its special ability isn't useless.
And it is essentially useless to the vast numbers of jobs along the Rt.
And please, ignore the useless people there.
A program that audits logs after an event is useless, he said.
Before you know it, they’ll be pushing the next booster vaccine heavily and trying to get everyone to mask up again, despite masks having been shown to be almost entirely useless.
Blacklock, Otomewo, Phillips, and Bullard were all relatively useless from a pass rush perspective.
Champions of the Continent units from this Tier will result in characters that don’t perform as efficiently as those from higher Tiers, but this doesn’t necessarily mean they are useless.
Citizens have also been disturbed by trying to limit vote-buying before Making old currency notes Useless to prevent rogue politicians from hoarding money.
Fight for their lives, fight for their lives, the hopeless are useless in desperate times.
Furthermore, the constantly shifting layout of the dungeon makes conventional mapping and exploration techniques useless, raising the stakes for the protagonists.
He was full of useless facts which made everyone laugh.
Common combinations with useless
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is useless 21×
- useless and 18×
- useless to 14×
- are useless 14×
- the useless 9×
- useless in 8×
- of useless 8×
- useless as 8×
- was useless 7×
- completely useless 7×