Useless

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Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous. - Milton. Useless are all words Till you have writ "performance" with your swords. The other is for waiving. - Beau. & Fl. Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation to this controversy, as being either needless or fruitless. - Waterland. Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was ineffectual to many. - Bp. Stillingfleet.

Adj.	1.	useless - having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency" Antonyms: useful, utile - being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"
	2.	useless - not useful; "a curiously unhelpful and useless manual"

aimless, barren, counterproductive, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable, effete, etiolated, failed, failing, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, fustian, futile, good-for-nothing, harmful, hopeless, impotent, impracticable, impractical, inadequate, inane, incompetent, ineffective, inefficacious, inefficient, inept, injurious, inoperative, inutile, invalid, lame, manque, meaningless, miscarried, miscarrying, no go, nonfunctional, nugacious, nugatory, of no effect, of no force, of no use, prejudicial, purposeless, sterile, stickit, stillborn, successless, superfluous, unadvantageous, unavailable, unfavorable, unfortunate, unpractical, unproductive, unprofitable, unpurposed, unrewarding, unserviceable, unsuccessful, unusable, unworkable, vain

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