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Synonyms for uselessness
use·less·ness
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
uselessness
Synonyms:
failure, inaction, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, inutility, powerlessnessAntonyms:
action, agency, effect, execution, force, influence, operation, performance, procedure, result
Princeton's WordNet
inutility, uselessness, unusefulnessnoun
the quality of having no practical use
Synonyms:
inutility, unusefulnessAntonyms:
usefulness, utility
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
uselessnessnoun
Synonyms:
inutility, futility, unserviceableness
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2278 | failure | |
#36114 | inaction | |
#38445 | inefficiency | |
#43205 | futility | |
#68672 | irrelevance | |
#73354 | powerlessness | |
#76413 | ineffectiveness | |
#119417 | worthlessness | |
#123069 | uselessness |
How to use uselessness in a sentence?
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To Why am I here? To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.
Anonymous British civil servant, "Take Her Deep" by I.J. Galatin, Cdr., US Navy, ret.:
The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness.
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
Translations for uselessness
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- inutilitéFrench
- neamhúsáidIrish
- inutilidadePortuguese
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