useless vs unuseful

Both "useless" and "unuseful" are adjectives that mean not serving a purpose or being ineffective. However, "useless" is the more commonly used and accepted term in English, while "unuseful" is less common and may sound awkward to native speakers.

Last updated: June 27, 2024 • 179 views

useless

This is a correct and commonly used English term.

Use "useless" to describe something that has no use or value.

Examples:

The broken watch is useless now.
Her advice was useless in solving the problem.
The old computer is useless for modern tasks.
He felt useless after losing his job.
The expired medicine is useless.

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The meaning of USELESS is having or being of no use. How to use useless in a sentence.
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Useless Farm. 267550 likes · 34424 talking about this. The most useless farm in existence. Giving animals a cushy place to enjoy the rest of their lives.

Alternatives:

ineffective
worthless
futile
pointless
unproductive

unuseful

This term is less common and may sound awkward to native speakers.

Avoid using "unuseful" and opt for "useless" or other synonyms like "ineffective" or "worthless".

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This tragic accident started a crisis when the Swiss newspapers denounced what they called an unuseful aerial circus.
This is what I call unuseful mystery.
Someone separates yolks and whites and wisk whites, but as the crêpe does not need to leaven, this operation results unuseful.
Because the unuseful subtracts us from the dictatorship of the purposes that end up being deviant from authentic living.
A. A fleet equipped with a less heavy box, because in aluminium, contributes to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions: less unuseful weight is synonymous of less pollution.
Unuseful to explain to local fans that this is just a little Toro.
Which makes the next thing - ["Unuseful clarity"] - all the more disheartening, at least to me.
["Unuseful mystery"] What happens when clarity and mystery get mixed up?
Unuseful goal of Rocco Reggina, Dionigi's back Scoring after seven turns, plays off Toro from serie A run Two goals of Dionigi: Reggina wins and avoids relegation, and forces the old and mythical Torino to lose every promotion hope.
Why is the unuseful important?
Your country I think this circuit is Useful A little useful Unuseful It would be good to find the PCB already madeYes No Your comments If you wish an answer, please include your address
Use minimum widgets and unuseful apps that use battery (eg. animated backgrounds).
As a general conclusion, panic disorder is poorly diagnosed while social costs increase in relation to the overprescription of examinations and treatment often unuseful.
You can now delete the file "foo.gw" and "foo.gwo", this last one being created by "gwc", became unuseful.
Do you confirm putting tape under the strip is unuseful? Reply Alberto De Gioannini says: 01/18/2017 at 10:10 Hello, even if you could avoid it, you can certainly put adhesive tape under the Strip.
After the test operations or after the show you will be able to switch your Slave off directly from the Master, remaneing in the safety zone and avoiding unuseful waste of battery energ.
Too much of anything becomes unhealthy, unuseful.
Indeed, we need vision and large shoulders to face that magnitude of changes, a work of sowing that doesn't matter to be accused to waste if some seeds could reveal themselves (but only after changes happened) unuseful.
I only know that at the end of September 1996 while I was in my studio eating a bunch of grapes I pulled off three grapes and I set them on my white table full of useful and unuseful things as usual.
We waste time, money and human resources giving, in large part of cases, unuseful informations to the wrong persons at the wrong time of their working careers. Competence

Alternatives:

useless
ineffective
worthless
futile
pointless

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