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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Useless  \Use"less\,  a. 
  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  pity. 
 
  Not  to  sit  idle  with  so  great  a  gift  Useless,  and 
  thence  ridiculous.  --Milton. 
 
  Syn:  Fruitless;  ineffectual. 
 
  Usage:  {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 
  fruitless  by  the  death  of  its  projector.  Ineffectual 
  nearly  resembles  fruitless,  but  implies  a  failure  of  a 
  less  hopeless  character;  as  after  several  ineffectual 
  efforts,  I  at  last  succeeded. 
 
  Useless  are  all  words  Till  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},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  uselessness 
  n  :  the  quality  of  having  to  practical  use  [syn:  {inutility},  {unusefulness}] 
  [ant:  {utility},  {utility}] 




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