uselessness

Noun

Meaning

uselessness (countable and uncountable, plural uselessnesses)

the quality of being useless

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Synonyms

inability impossibility incompetence vanity futility emptiness insufficiency inadequacy ineffectiveness insignificance impotence ineptitude incapability hollowness helplessness
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Antonyms

use point power energy force value
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Hypernyms

quality

Hyponyms

futility impracticability impracticableness impracticality

Examples

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. Marshall McLuhan

Chan's heart knew only greed, but there was within him enough intelligence to wonder before a man who could see all the uselessness of life, and still exult in the possessing of it. Lin Carter

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. George Bernard Shaw

My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. William Osler

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering. Bernard Malamud

Faith and dishonesty are other words for uselessness. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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