Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Useless; serving no purpose.
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- adjective Not
useful ;useless .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"unuseful" -- to be outside the boundaries of legal protection.
Remarks By President And His Holiness Pope John Paul Ii ITY National Archives 1999
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Just like visual basic apps, while you will probably get some very nice addons, most produced using this will probably be "unuseful".
JetPack Could Revolutionise Firefox’s Extensibility—in Time | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Just like visual basic apps, while you will probably get some very nice addons, most produced using this will probably be "unuseful".
JetPack Could Revolutionise Firefox’s Extensibility—in Time | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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All wineries are on slabs, and even if they do not lose all their wine, it would be likely that some buildings will simply become unuseful because they need to be reconstructed from the ground up.
Chilean earthquake: wineries, barrels, bottles damaged or demolished | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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So … an untensil would perhaps be an unuseful tool?
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So … an untensil would perhaps be an unuseful tool?
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So … an untensil would perhaps be an unuseful tool?
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This has the effect, not unuseful, of limiting the desire for it and making you less grasping.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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This has the effect, not unuseful, of limiting the desire for it and making you less grasping.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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My reasoning: While historical parallels and analogies can be problematic, they are not altogether unuseful.
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