be useless

Antonyms

come in handy do good

Examples

To a poet nothing can be useless. Samuel Johnson

Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless. John Wesley

We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy. André Maurois

Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world. Andrei Tarkovsky

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Honoré de Balzac

If it were not for the hands, the clock would be useless. Polish Proverb

Words in the phrase

be useless

Close letter words and terms

be useful be useful to be useful to someone be useless at something be vague be vague about