Antonyms for usefulnessuse·ful·ness

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1. usefulness

   The returns or receipts include all that is received from an outlay or investment; the profit is the excess (if any) of the receipts over the outlay; hence, in government, morals, etc., the profit is what is really good, helpful, useful, valuable. Utility is chiefly used in the sense of some immediate or personal and generally some material good. Advantage is that which gives one a vantage-ground, either for coping with competitors or with difficulties, needs, or demands; as to have the advantage of a good education; it is frequently used of what one has beyond another or secures at the expense of another; as, to have the advantage of another in an argument, or to take advantage of another in a bargain. Gain is what one secures beyond what he previously possessed. Benefit is anything that does one good. Emolument is profit, return, or value accruing through official position. Expediency has respect to profit or advantage, real or supposed, considered apart from or perhaps in opposition to right, in actions having a moral character. Compare UTILITY.

   Antonyms:
   damage, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, loss, ruin, waste

   Synonyms:
   advantage, avail, benefit, emolument, expediency, gain, good, improvement, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, returns, service, utility, value

   Preposition:
   The profit of labor; on capital; in business.

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1. • Quality

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. utility, usefulnessnoun

   the quality of being of practical use

   Antonyms:
   unusefulness, uselessness, inutility

   Synonyms:
   public utility company, public-service corporation, utility, public utility, service program, utility program

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1. usefulnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   utility, advantage

How to use usefulness in a sentence?

1. Catherine Tucker:

   The key thing about blockchain technology is that you must have a use case for why you need digital data to be persistent and unchangeable, it makes sense for digital currencies and also health data and insurance data. It makes less sense in industries where the usefulness of data is more temporary.

2. Thiruman Archunan:

   The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.

3. Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley:

   Given that even after years of stonewalling these are only a fraction of the documents that were subpoenaed by the House of Representatives, at this point, the usefulness remains to be seen.

4. Richard Nixon:

   A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

5. Author Unknown:

   A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

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