- not useful; not doing or achieving what is needed or wanted
- This pen is useless.
- All I got from him was some useless advice and a loan of £200.
- useless to do something He knew it was useless to protest.
- useless doing something It's useless worrying about it.
- The quality ranged from acceptable to worse than useless.
- She tried to work, but it was useless (= she wasn't able to).
Extra Examples- A computer program with too many icons is worse than useless.
- Her efforts to avoid him proved useless.
- The condition rendered her legs virtually useless.
- The information was useless to him.
- The land is useless for cattle.
- There are two manuals, both of them equally useless.
- They rejected the designs as useless.
- This drug is useless in the treatment of patients with AIDS.
- Critics argued that the space programme was a useless waste of money.
- The letter is useless as evidence.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- prove
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- absolutely
- completely
- entirely
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- (informal) not very good at something; not able to do things well
- useless at something I'm useless at French.
- I'm pretty useless at this job.
- useless at doing something I'm useless at remembering names.
- Don't ask her to help. She's useless.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- absolutely
- completely
- pretty
- …
- at
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