Synonyms for Uselessness

Synonyms for "uselessness" (60 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (12)

bankruptcy bootlessness counterproductiveness counterproductivity defeat disrepair emptiness failure fatuity futility ill success impoliticalness

Strong matches (18)

impoliticness inadvisability inanity inappropriateness inaptitude incompetence incongruity inconvenience inconveniency ineffectiveness ineffectuality ineffectualness inefficaciousness inefficacy ineptitude inexpedience inexpediency infelicity

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

1 entries

quality

Antonyms

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usefulness

Synonyms

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inutility

derived from

2 entries

use useless

distinct from

1 entries

usefulness

related to

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useless

Translations

11 translations across 10 languages.

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Finnish

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turhanpäiväisyys noun (quality of being useless)

French

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inutilité noun (quality of being useless)

German

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Sinnlosigkeit noun (quality of being useless)

Hungarian

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használhatatlanság noun (quality of being useless)

Irish

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neamhúsáid noun (quality of being useless)

Macedonian

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беско́рисност noun (quality of being useless)
беспо́лезност noun (quality of being useless)

Old English

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unnytnes noun (quality of being useless)

Polish

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bezużyteczność noun (quality of being useless)

Portuguese

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inutilidade noun (quality of being useless)

Russian

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бесполе́зность noun (quality of being useless)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The best doctor is the one who knows about the uselessness of the majority of medicines.

Source: tatoeba (8543518)

People don't understand the usefulness of uselessness.

Source: tatoeba (11160423)

Uselessness