Meaning & use
useless
Not able to fulfill its intended purpose, or having no practical use or effect.
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The broken umbrella was useless in the middle of the storm.
All his advice turned out to be useless once the situation actually changed.
A note on using this word
Useless can also be used informally and self-deprecatingly to mean incompetent, as in feeling useless at a task.
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