worthless
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3.0
- adjective
- /ˈwɜrθləs/
:
sin valor
- Everything you do is either worthless or sadly amusing.
- feel worthless
- virtually worthless
- render worthless
Yeah, your skills are worthless, but your context is valuable.
- Yeah, your skills are worthless, but your context is valuable.
- Work life balance is worthless when you're balancing the wrong things.
- It's got Trump's name on it and it's worthless and vacant.
- And then Kasad says, did you ever finish your worthless prose poem?
- I'll sort of feel worthless as a father, right?
- If it isn't useful, then it's worthless to talk about.
- But I think it's worthless if these tenants aren't paying rent.
- I mean, you know, it's it's a worthless exercise.
- So plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
- Only a little above worthless was fertile soil for the Red Turbans.
- So even though Fiat is frankly worthless, it's paper money.
Examples
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So plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
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Work life balance is worthless when you're balancing the wrong things.
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When you came in, we were just talking about this worthless money that we must have.
Fiction book (1991) -
I mean papers are worthless unless you can verify.
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If your iPhone became worthless, you would never want it back, right?
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The land is almost completely worthless to us now that the Fire Sea has retreated.
Fiction book (1991) -
I have taken what others discard as worthless and made that into something valuable.
Fiction book (1993) -
I may deem some services to be professionally worthless while a writer finds personal value in them.
Academic text (2008) -
In most cases, this lease interest would be virtually worthless relative to the cost of cleanup.
Academic text (1993) -
The old television was considered worthless after it broke.
Synonyms
550
1.0
Not able to do the job it is made for
226
5.1
Having no meaning, value, or purpose
157
3.5
Not doing anything useful
133
2.5
An action that will not help
88
5.6
Bad or worthless and often causing trouble
84
6.0
Not likely to work or help
54
1.9
Not worth attention or notice
5
3.6
Not worth anything or useful
2
6.8
Not useful or worth much
1
8.9
A person or thing that others see as worthless
1
6.2
Of no value or use
1
9.4
Having little value or importance
1
7.5
Not having real importance or value
1
9.9
Something that has no real purpose or value
Not useful and having little value
Having little or no value
Not important or serious compared with other things
Not important or worth worrying about
Completely without help for any task
Antonyms
How Valuable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word worthless combines worth ('value') with the ending -less ('without'), the same -less you see in careless. So it means 'without value', which is why we call something or someone that has no real use or importance 'worthless'.