| Meaning | lacking in usefulness or value. |
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| Example | "a worthless idler" |
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| Narrower | chaffy | Value |
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| good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry | Without merit |
| manky | inferior and worthless |
| negligible, paltry, trifling | not worth considering |
| nugatory | Of no real value |
| otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted | Serving no useful purpose |
| rubbishy, trashy | cheap and inferior |
| tinpot | inferior (especially of a country's leadership) |
| valueless | Of no value |
| See also | unworthy | lacking in value or merit |
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| Opposite | valuable | Having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange |
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| Spanish | inútil |
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| Nouns | worthlessness | having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful |
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| Adverbs | worthlessly | in a worthless manner |
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