Worthless
['wɜːθlɪs] or ['wɝθləs]
Definition
(a.) Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Useless, valueless, naught, bootless, fruitless, profitless, nugatory, unserviceable, futile, unproductive, unprofitable, miserable, poor, wretched.[2]. Base, vile, unworthy, ignoble, abject, depraved, profligate, abandoned, graceless, good for nothing.[3]. Refuse, waste.[4]. Tinsel, showy, glittering, gaudy, superficial, trashy, trumpery, flimsy.[5]. Trifling, trivial, paltry, frivolous, slight, piddling, of no moment, of small importance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cheap, vile, valueless, useless, base, contemptible, despicable, reprobate,vicious
ANT:Costly, rich, rare, valuable, worthy, useful, honorable, estimable, excellent,noble, precious, admirable, virtuous
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Examples
- I don't wish to throw away my time and trouble on an offering you would deem worthless. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You will kill off Pilar, Anselmo, Agustín, Primitivo, this jumpy Eladio, the worthless gypsy and old Fernando, and you won't get your bridge blown. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No one had ever carried the hay away and the four seasons that had passed had flattened the cocks and made the hay worthless. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless, in the same condition as in the most sterile hybrids. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He has already turned his state-room into a museum of worthless trumpery, which he has gathered up in his travels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For many years old and worn out rubber goods were thrown away as worthless. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They are worthless. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I thought you a broken toy that had lasted its time; a worthless spangle that was tarnished, and thrown away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I am as worthless a dog as you will find, except that I am not false—not false. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- How worthless to them will seem the honours and glories of the den! Plato. The Republic.
- In colonial times, every family made its own supply of soap, utilizing, for that purpose, household scraps often regarded by the housekeeper of to-day as worthless. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- On the other hand, they are worthless for cell growth and repair, and if we limited our diet to carbohydrates, we should be like a man who had fuel but no engine capable of using it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The fire was smoking and Pilar called to Maria, Blow up the fire, worthless one. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- De Hamal is most worthless, yet I fear he pleases her: wretched delusion! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Everything being hollow and worthless, she had missed nothing and sacrificed nothing. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The gypsy is worthless although his intentions are good. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is for the most worthless of all purposes, too, that they are taxed in this manner. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Certainly it was not worth being delayed by something so sad and ugly and apparently worthless. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the United States, approximately two fifths of the land area is so dry as to be worthless for agricultural purposes unless artificially watered. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I had heard him call them his treasures: as I picked them up, cracked and worthless, my hand trembled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Charles Goodyear took this nearly worthless material, and made of it, as Parton said in 1865--not a new material merely, but a new class of materials, applicable to a thousand divers uses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Hence the elimination of the worthless gangue by concentration of the iron particles associated with it, seemed to be the only solution of the problem. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Votes in themselves are worthless things. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Local aid is always either worthless or else biassed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- What a vast profusion of good things upon a useless life and a worthless liver! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Material treated in this way is thoroughly bleached, but is at the same time rotten and worthless. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He is truly worthless. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Worthless thing! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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