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ineffectual, futile, unavailing

adj. producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"

wasted, useless, pointless, superfluous

adj. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"

do-nothing, indolent, shiftless, bone-idle, bone-lazy, faineant, lazy, slothful, workshy, work-shy, bone idle, fainéant

adj. disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"

ineffective, uneffective

adj. not producing an intended effect; "an ineffective teacher"; "ineffective legislation"

stillborn, abortive, unsuccessful

adj. failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"

bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain

adj. unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

worthless

adj. lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"

unproductive

adj. not producing or capable of producing; "elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries"

unproductive

adj. not producing desired results; "the talks between labor and management were unproductive"

unsuccessful

adj. not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome

unprofitable

adj. producing little or no profit or gain; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable"

barren, childless

adj. without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"

hopeless

adj. certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"

hopeless

adj. without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"

impossible

adj. not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with; "an impossible dream"; "an impossible situation"

meaningless

adj. having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"

nonsense, nonsensical

adj. having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words"

dawdling, pokey, laggard, dilatory, poky

adj. wasting time

dreamy, lackadaisical

adj. lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"

negligent

adj. characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern; "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent in his correspondence"

derelict, delinquent, neglectful, remiss

adj. failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills"

inert, lethargic, sluggish, torpid

adj. slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"

waste, scrap, cast-off, discarded, junked

adj. thrown away; "wearing someone's cast-off clothes"; "throwaway children living on the streets"; "salvaged some thrown-away furniture"

unprofitable, inutile

adj. not worth using

unserviceable, unusable, unuseable

adj. not capable of being used

light, chaffy

adj. value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow"

good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, sorry, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good

adj. without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"

trifling, paltry, negligible, piddling, piffling

adj. not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

nugatory

adj. of no real value; "a nugatory law"

trumpery, trashy, rubbishy

adj. cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise"

valueless

adj. of no value

at leisure

adj. euphemism for "unemployed"

leisure, leisured

adj. free from duties or responsibilities; "he writes in his leisure hours"; "life as it ought to be for the leisure classes"- J.J.Chapman; "even the artist and the sculptor were not regarded...as leisured men"- Ida Craven

twiddly

adj. (British) occupied with trifles; twiddling one's thumbs

unengaged, unemployed, unoccupied

adj. not busy or occupied; free; "the cancellation left her unengaged a good part of the afternoon"

useful, utile

adj. being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"

effectual

adj. exerting or capable of exerting strong physiological or chemical effects"a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"

valuable

adj. having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange; "another human being equally valuable in the sight of God"; "a valuable diamond"

invaluable, priceless

adj. having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth

essential, crucial, all-important, all important, of the essence

adj. of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"

useful, of value

adj. being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"

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