useless

useless /'ju:slis/
  • tính từ
    • vô ích, vô dụng; không dùng được
      • useless efforts: những cố gắng vô ích
    • (từ lóng) không khoẻ; không phấn khởi; vứt đi

 vô ích
Lĩnh vực: xây dựng
 vô dụng

Word families (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs): usage, use, disuse, misuse, usefulness, user, reuse, reusable, used, disused, unused, useful, useless, usefully



useless

Từ điển Collocation

useless adj.

1 of no use

VERBS be, feel, prove Her efforts to avoid him proved useless. | become | leave sth, make sth, render sth The condition rendered her legs virtually useless. | reject sth as They rejected the designs as useless.

ADV. bloody (taboo) | absolutely, completely, entirely, quite, totally, utterly, wholly | worse than A computer program with too many icons is worse than useless. | all but, almost, practically, virtually | largely | fairly, pretty | equally There are two manuals, both of them equally useless.

PREP. as A candle is practically useless as a light source. | for The land is useless for cattle. | in This drug is useless in the treatment of patients with Aids. | to The information was useless to him.

2 weak/not successful

VERBS be

ADV. bloody (taboo) | completely | pretty

PREP. at I'm pretty useless at this job.


Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully

    a kitchen full of useless gadgets

    she is useless in an emergency


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: fruitless ineffectual worthless

ant.: useful