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What does useless mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word useless? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Without use or possibility to be used.
  2. Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
  3. (pejorative) good-for-nothing; not dependable.
  4. (colloquial, of a person) unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting.
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You think all this caterwauling about the deficit is just a bunch of useless jibber-jabber that will never go anywhere?
Celestial navigation used a sextant built right into the cockpit but if the plane was wallowing at all, it was useless.
Zeph was definitely not the wimpy, useless, weak coward that he had originally seemed and she found herself almost inexplicably drawn to him.
Hiring a skip, we spent days clearing the place of his useless tat before we could move our own piles of useless tat in.
Most were thieves or assassins but others were there to make good money off of their useless junk.
The eyes need one to two seconds for accommodation before they can focus, so a continuous sweep is useless for identifying targets.

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