Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or character of being useless; unserviceableness; unfitness for any valuable purpose or for the purpose intended.
Wiktionary
- n. the quality of being useless
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of having no practical use
Examples
“For all its protestations of a global reach and its prating about the ascendancy of "soft power", when the chips are down, its utter uselessness is so evident that even that does not warrant comment.”
“Huxley declares that the sense of uselessness is the severest shock which the human system can sustain, and that if persistently sustained, it results in atrophy of function.”
“You who have dedicated your powers of mind and fortune to the benefit of your species, shall you so misdirect your exertions, as to support in uselessness the strong, healthy, and capable?”
“In writing about the conflict, I could be a good lefty and give you my bleeding heart liberal chat about absolute disgust for the death tolls and devastation, for the cultural hardening on both sides that these conflicts incur and how that is the real damage, and why, regardless of the long-term uselessness of an immediate ceasefire with little else achieved, we nonetheless must demand a ceasefire.”
“See also: Defying the notion of uselessness as a sign of authenticity; ‘Saints, Soldiers’: Searing authenticity”
“CAFFERTY: Lake Superior State University thinks that these words ought to be banished from the queen's English for misuse, overuse and general uselessness, which is why they belong in the File.”
“But the sheer hatred of what I came to call the uselessness of war gnawed at my soul.”
The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
“She gave me news of the world, our old world of idle uselessness, which is now one of solid work.”
“I recall the uselessness of the opposition that was set up against his lamented mother when she decided to marry Grenfell Lorry.”
“Thus, gold's apparent "uselessness" is a necessary condition for it to be useful as money.”
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yarb ...sitting meekly at the altar-rail to hear again the published record of their uselessness and of their dependence upon church charity...
- Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware, ch. 1 Jul 31, 2008
uselessness Hmm, I suppose I should add this word, no? But I won't. Fight the system! Feb 5, 2007