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Webster 1913 Edition
Useless
Use′less
,Adj.
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
pityNot to sit idle with so great a gift
Useless
, and thence ridiculous. Milton.
Syn. – Fruitless; ineffectual.
–
Useless
, Fruitless
, Ineffectual
. We speak of an attempt, effort, etc., as being useless when there are in it inherent difficulties which forbid the hope of success, as fruitless when it fails, not from any such difficulties, but from some unexpected hindrance arising to frustrate it; as, the design was rendered
. Ineffectual nearly resembles fruitless, but implies a failure of a less hopeless character; fruitless
by the death of its projectoras, after several
. ineffectual
efforts, I at last succeededUseless
are all wordsTill 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.
Use′less-ly
, adv.
Use′less-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Useless
U'SELESS
,Adj.