Synonyms for worthlessness
worth·less·ness

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. worthlessness

   Synonyms:
   disadvantage, folly, futility, impolicy, inadequacy, inexpediency, inutility, unprofitableness, uselessness

   Antonyms:
   advantage, avail, benefit, expediency, profit, service, serviceableness, use, usefulness, utility

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. worthlessness, ineptitudenoun

   having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful

   "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness"

   Synonyms:
   awkwardness, ineptitude, slowness, ineptness, clumsiness, maladroitness

   Antonyms:
   worth

2. worthlessnessnoun

   the quality of being without practical use

   Synonyms:
   ineptitude

   Antonyms:
   worth

Matched Categories

1. • Uselessness

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "worthlessness":

   uselessness, non-requirement, devaluation, futility

How to pronounce worthlessness?

How to say worthlessness in sign language?

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

1. [["1600","24"],["1635","1"],["1662","1"],["1685","3"],["1699","1"],["1712","1"],["1714","1"],["1730","1"],["1735","1"],["1742","1"],["1744","1"],["1745","4"],["1746","1"],["1750","1"],["1753","1"],["1754","1"],["1755","1"],["1757","1"],["1760","5"],["1761","1"],["1763","2"],["1764","5"],["1765","1"],["1766","4"],["1767","4"],["1768","1"],["1769","2"],["1770","1"],["1771","4"],["1772","1"],["1773","2"],["1774","3"],["1775","3"],["1776","9"],["1777","5"],["1778","2"],["1779","1"],["1780","1"],["1782","4"],["1783","3"],["1784","7"],["1785","3"],["1786","7"],["1787","3"],["1788","10"],["1789","11"],["1790","11"],["1791","7"],["1792","8"],["1793","8"],["1794","8"],["1795","7"],["1796","7"],["1797","9"],["1798","9"],["1799","14"],["1800","16"],["1801","38"],["1802","11"],["1803","38"],["1804","29"],["1805","26"],["1806","35"],["1807","40"],["1808","56"],["1809","52"],["1810","42"],["1811","66"],["1812","58"],["1813","39"],["1814","58"],["1815","41"],["1816","40"],["1817","106"],["1818","109"],["1819","124"],["1820","133"],["1821","146"],["1822","163"],["1823","163"],["1824","193"],["1825","157"],["1826","123"],["1827","178"],["1828","232"],["1829","309"],["1830","303"],["1831","253"],["1832","201"],["1833","341"],["1834","280"],["1835","330"],["1836","400"],["1837","259"],["1838","288"],["1839","314"],["1840","340"],["1841","345"],["1842","419"],["1843","397"],["1844","456"],["1845","344"],["1846","544"],["1847","375"],["1848","597"],["1849","414"],["1850","540"],["1851","396"],["1852","583"],["1853","535"],["1854","516"],["1855","536"],["1856","613"],["1857","426"],["1858","480"],["1859","466"],["1860","532"],["1861","350"],["1862","327"],["1863","312"],["1864","494"],["1865","570"],["1866","461"],["1867","547"],["1868","628"],["1869","582"],["1870","508"],["1871","519"],["1872","502"],["1873","518"],["1874","611"],["1875","589"],["1876","627"],["1877","767"],["1878","501"],["1879","611"],["1880","768"],["1881","693"],["1882","679"],["1883","788"],["1884","770"],["1885","782"],["1886","658"],["1887","712"],["1888","734"],["1889","676"],["1890","616"],["1891","716"],["1892","827"],["1893","783"],["1894","784"],["1895","828"],["1896","806"],["1897","891"],["1898","956"],["1899","1014"],["1900","852"],["1901","933"],["1902","1054"],["1903","822"],["1904","939"],["1905","984"],["1906","978"],["1907","835"],["1908","885"],["1909","989"],["1910","886"],["1911","868"],["1912","796"],["1913","833"],["1914","741"],["1915","702"],["1916","671"],["1917","601"],["1918","571"],["1919","600"],["1920","811"],["1921","584"],["1922","726"],["1923","582"],["1924","653"],["1925","576"],["1926","546"],["1927","647"],["1928","703"],["1929","610"],["1930","607"],["1931","577"],["1932","619"],["1933","399"],["1934","773"],["1935","605"],["1936","696"],["1937","769"],["1938","779"],["1939","494"],["1940","599"],["1941","754"],["1942","524"],["1943","524"],["1944","458"],["1945","499"],["1946","603"],["1947","774"],["1948","1049"],["1949","986"],["1950","978"],["1951","1025"],["1952","1180"],["1953","929"],["1954","1489"],["1955","962"],["1956","1053"],["1957","1273"],["1958","1275"],["1959","1199"],["1960","1365"],["1961","1626"],["1962","1393"],["1963","1390"],["1964","1471"],["1965","1633"],["1966","1878"],["1967","2103"],["1968","2060"],["1969","1967"],["1970","1799"],["1971","1754"],["1972","1870"],["1973","1859"],["1974","1898"],["1975","2072"],["1976","1969"],["1977","1968"],["1978","2325"],["1979","2308"],["1980","2363"],["1981","2512"],["1982","2448"],["1983","2357"],["1984","2765"],["1985","2589"],["1986","2754"],["1987","2837"],["1988","3077"],["1989","3150"],["1990","3285"],["1991","3185"],["1992","3412"],["1993","3374"],["1994","3620"],["1995","3900"],["1996","4219"],["1997","4636"],["1998","4319"],["1999","4815"],["2000","5193"],["2001","5004"],["2002","5597"],["2003","5634"],["2004","6970"],["2005","6960"],["2006","7822"],["2007","7872"],["2008","10662"]]

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use worthlessness in a sentence?

1. Carolyn Wynn:

   When you have depression, you have a fear : fear of worthlessness, fear of not being enough, climbing pulls you out of that.

2. Norman O. Brown:

   In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.