| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
| |
useless |
| |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having no useful result: barren, bootless, fruitless, futile, unavailing, unprofitable, unsuccessful, vain. Idioms: in vain. See THRIVE, USED. 2. Incapable of being used or availed of to advantage: impracticable, impractical, unnegotiable, unserviceable, unusable, unworkable. See USED. 3. Not having the desired effect: ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient. See AFFECT. 4. Having no useful purpose: ineffectual, inutile, unusable, worthless. See USED.
| | |
| |
| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
