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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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Hiring a skip, we spent days clearing the place of his useless tat before we could move our own piles of useless tat in.
Celestial navigation used a sextant built right into the cockpit but if the plane was wallowing at all, it was useless.
The eyes need one to two seconds for accommodation before they can focus, so a continuous sweep is useless for identifying targets.
To him, she was a precious jewel among thousands of massive and useless rocks.
You can hardly enter or leave the Royal Garden Plaza without tripping over someone's junk or having useless articles thrust into your face.
Most were thieves or assassins but others were there to make good money off of their useless junk.

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