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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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Celestial navigation used a sextant built right into the cockpit but if the plane was wallowing at all, it was useless.
Such stones were useless to the early quarriers, although they would often take the specimens home as curiosities.
So a few weeks ago, the two astronauts who live there tossed out some useless junk, like so many old hubcaps for the trash heap.
You think all this caterwauling about the deficit is just a bunch of useless jibber-jabber that will never go anywhere?
Mr. X's drawing of the joint was not so much useless as directed at a different objective.
Hiring a skip, we spent days clearing the place of his useless tat before we could move our own piles of useless tat in.

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