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Adjective [edit]
useless (comparative uselesser or more useless, superlative uselessest or most useless)
- Without use or possibility to be used.
- This fork has prongs that are bent. It's useless now.
- Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
- I think it's useless to keep this discussion going. It's like talking to a wall.
- I tried my best to make him quit smoking, but my efforts were useless. He now smokes six packs a day.
- (pejorative, of a person) good-for-nothing; not dependable.
- Bill never mows the lawn, takes out the trash or anything. He's useless, but I love him anyways.
- (colloquial, of a person) unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting.
- My brother is useless at most computer games, but he is an awesome PS2 player.
- Why do you keep trying? You're obviously useless at it.
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without use
- Asturian: inútil (ast)
- Basque: baliogabe (eu), ezgai (eu), hutsal (eu)
- Bulgarian: безполезен (bg) (bezpolézen)
- Catalan: inútil (ca) m and f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無用 (cmn), 无用 (cmn) (wúyòng)
- Czech: zbytečný (cs) m, k ničemu (cs)
- Danish: ubrugelig (da)
- Dutch: nutteloos (nl), onbruikbaar (nl)
- Estonian: tarbetu (et)
- Finnish: hyödytön (fi), tarpeeton (fi), kelvoton (fi), turha (fi)
- French: inutile (fr)
- Galician: inútil (gl)
- Georgian: უსარგებლო (ka) (usargeblo)
- German: nutzlos (de), unnützlich (de)
- Greek: άχρηστος (el) (áchristos)
- Hawaiian: waiwai ʻole (haw), makehewa (haw), ʻole wale (haw)
- Hebrew: חֲסַר תוֹעֶלֶת (he) (ḥasar to'elet)
- Hindi: बेकार (hi) (bekār)
- Icelandic: gagnslaus (is)
- Ido: neutila (io)
- Interlingua: inusabile (ia)
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- Irish: gan mhaith (ga)
- Italian: inutile (it) m and f
- Japanese: 無用な (ja) (むような, muyō-na)
- Jèrriais: innutile
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: بێ سوود (ckb), بێ کهڵک (ckb)
- Latin: inutilis (la)
- Norwegian: nytteløst (no), unyttig (no)
- Pashto: بې کاره (ps) (be kâra) m and f
- Pitjantjatjara: kura, uṉa
- Polish: niepotrzebny (pl) m, bezużyteczny (pl) m
- Portuguese: inútil (pt)
- Romanian: inutil (ro) m and n, netrebuincios (ro) m and n, nefolositor (ro) m and n
- Russian: бесполезный (ru) (bespoléznyj), ненужный (ru) (nenúžnyj), (good-for-nothing) никчёмный (ru) (nikčómnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: gun fheum (gd)
- Slovak: zbytočný (sk) m, nanič (sk), (vulg.) nahovno (sk)
- Spanish: inútil (es) m and f
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Urdu: بیکار (ur) (bekār)
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