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useless

adj. having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"

useless

adj. having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"

otiose, wasted, pointless, superfluous

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

unsuccessful

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

miserable, wretched, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, hapless, misfortunate, piteous, poor

adj. deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

unlucky, luckless

adj. having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"

ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky

adj. marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott

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"

bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain

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

arid, waterless

adj. lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

barren, childless

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

infertile, unfertile

adj. incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"

unimaginative, sterile, uninspired, uninventive

adj. deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"

sterile

adj. free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms; "a sterile operating area"; "aseptic surgical instruments"; "aseptic surgical techniques"

stillborn, abortive, unsuccessful

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

impractical

adj. not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution"

abstract

adj. existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; "abstract words like `truth' and `justice'"

worthless

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

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"

unaccommodating

adj. offering no assistance; "rudely unaccommodating to the customers"; "icily neutral, disagreeably unhelpful"

unconstructive

adj. not constructive

ineffective, uneffective

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

unprofitable

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

unserviceable

adj. not ready for service; "unserviceable equipment may be replaced"

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

helpful

adj. providing assistance or serving a useful function

useful, utile

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

helpful

adj. of service or assistance; "a child who is helpful around the house can save the mother many steps"

helpful

adj. providing assistance or serving a useful function

profitable

adj. yielding material gain or profit; "profitable speculation on the stock market"

productive

adj. producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration"

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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