It's useless to keep on thinking any more.
Source: tatoeba (1486)
Useless
//ˈjuːs.ləs//
Synonyms for "useless" (98 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (29)
Related words (49)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
15 entriesTranslations
151 translations across 64 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἀχρεῖος adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- ἄχρηστος adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Arabic
1 entries- عَدِيمُ الْفَائِدَةِ adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Armenian
2 entries- անպետք adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- անօգուտ adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Asturian
1 entries- inútil adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Basque
3 entries- baliogabe adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- ezgai adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- hutsal adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Belarusian
1 entries- бескары́сны adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Bulgarian
3 entries- безполе́зен adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- безсмислен adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- негоден adj (good-for-nothing, not dependable)
Catalan
2 entries- inútil adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- inútil adj (unable to do well)
Cebuano
4 entries- bala adj (unable to do well)
- banga adj (unable to do well)
- walay gamit adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- walay gamit adj (unhelpful, pointless)
Central Kurdish
4 entries- بێ سوود adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- بێ کەڵک adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- بێ کەڵک adj (unable to do well)
- ھیچوپوچ adj (unable to do well)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 冇用 adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- 冇鬼用 adj (unable to do well)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 無用 /无用 adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Czech
1 entries- zbytečný adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Danish
4 entries- meningsløs adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- nytteløs adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- ubrugelig adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- unyttig adj (unable to do well)
Dutch
3 entries- nutteloos adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- onbruikbaar adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- waardeloos adj (good-for-nothing, not dependable)
Esperanto
1 entries- senutila adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Estonian
1 entries- tarbetu adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Finnish
4 entries- hyödytön adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- hyödytön adj (good-for-nothing, not dependable)
- kelvoton adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- kelvoton adj (unable to do well)
French
4 entries- bon à rien adj (good-for-nothing, not dependable)
- inutile adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- inutile adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- inutilisable adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Galician
1 entries- inútil adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Georgian
1 entries- უსარგებლო adj (without use or possibility to be used)
German
4 entries- nutzlos adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- sinnlos adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- sinnlos adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- unnütz adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌿𐍄𐍃 adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Greek
3 entries- άχρηστος adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- άχρηστος adj (unable to do well)
- μάταιος adj (unhelpful, pointless)
Hawaiian
3 entries- makehewa adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- makehewa adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- waiwai ʻole adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Hebrew
1 entries- חֲסַר תוֹעֶלֶת adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Hindi
4 entries- अर्थहीन adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- कुटिल adj (good-for-nothing, not dependable)
- निरर्थक adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- बेकार adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Icelandic
1 entries- gagnslaus adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Indonesian
4 entries- brengsek adj (good-for-nothing, not dependable)
- payah adj (unable to do well)
- percuma adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- sia-sia adj (unhelpful, pointless)
Ingrian
1 entries- kelpaamatoin adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Interlingua
1 entries- inusabile adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Irish
1 entries- gan mhaith adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Italian
4 entries- buono a nulla adj (good-for-nothing, not dependable)
- inutile adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- inutile adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- inutile adj (good-for-nothing, not dependable)
Japanese
2 entries- 下手 adj (unable to do well)
- 無用な adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Khiamniungan Naga
2 entries- āchú adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- āchú adj (unhelpful, pointless)
Korean
3 entries- 무용하다 adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- 소용가 없다 adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- 쓸모가 없다 adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Latin
2 entries- cassus adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- inūtilis adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Macedonian
1 entries- некористен adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Malay
1 entries- tidak berguna adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Norman
1 entries- innutile adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Norwegian
4 entries- nytteløs adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- ubrukelig adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- unyttig adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- unyttig adj (unable to do well)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ubrukelig adj (unable to do well)
Occitan
1 entries- inutil adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Old English
1 entries- unnytt adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Pashto
2 entries- بې کاره adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- بې کاره adj (unable to do well)
Persian
1 entries- بی فایده adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- daugeniksich adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- nutzlooss adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Polish
2 entries- bezużyteczny adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- niepotrzebny adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Portuguese
4 entries- imprestável adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- imprestável adj (good-for-nothing, not dependable)
- inútil adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- inútil adj (unhelpful, pointless)
Romanian
3 entries- inutil adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- nefolositor adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- netrebuincios adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Russian
4 entries- бесполе́зный adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- бесполе́зный adj (unable to do well)
- нену́жный adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- никчёмный adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Sanskrit
1 entries- विफल adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- dìomhain adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- gun fheum adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- gun fheum adj (unable to do well)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- beskoristan adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- бескористан adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Slovak
1 entries- zbytočný adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Slovene
1 entries- nekoristen adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Spanish
4 entries- inútil adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- inútil adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- inútil adj (good-for-nothing, not dependable)
- inútil adj (unable to do well)
Swedish
4 entries- hopplös adj (good-for-nothing, not dependable)
- meningslös adj (unhelpful, pointless)
- oanvändbar adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- obrukbar adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Thai
1 entries- ไม่มีประโยชน์ adj (unhelpful, pointless)
Turkish
1 entries- faydasız adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Ukrainian
1 entries- некори́сний adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Urdu
2 entries- بے کار adj (without use or possibility to be used)
- فضول adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Vietnamese
1 entries- vô dụng adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Yiddish
1 entries- אומניצלעך adj (without use or possibility to be used)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
For once in my life I'm doing a good deed... And it is useless.
Source: tatoeba (3257)
There are 5 computers in the house, but 2 of them are useless.
Source: tatoeba (24248)
I can't work at all with all these useless calls coming in.
Source: tatoeba (38450)
Showing 4 of 17 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.