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Antonyms for worthless
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : wurth-lis |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɜrθ lɪs |
Definition of worthless
Origin :- 1580s, from worth (1) + -less. Related: Worthlessly; worthlessness.
- adj of no use; without value
- Perhaps you were taken in by that worthless man, for a real marriage it could not be.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Even Shakspere could not keep the love of a worthless woman.
- Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
- Compared to this, all the other proofs of freedom are worthless or weak.
- Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
- All the other proofs of God are weak or worthless beside this one.
- Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
- Without that rootless, worthless, devilish fancy, I might have been no worse than other people!
- Extract from : « Salted With Fire » by George MacDonald
- The Spaniards had passed by the best parts of North America as worthless.
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- Think you that Vivian Grey could be crushed by such a worthless thing as you?
- Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
- I have sought not an ideal, but an ambition––a worthless thing.
- Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge
- And if they did, what can We, their worthless descendants do for them now?
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- Had the servant been the most worthless of her sex she could not have been more bitterly upbraided.
- Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
Synonyms for worthless
- abandoned
- abject
- barren
- base
- bogus
- cheap
- contemptible
- counterproductive
- despicable
- empty
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- ignoble
- inconsequential
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inferior
- insignificant
- inutile
- meaningless
- mediocre
- miserable
- no-account
- no-good
- nothing
- nugatory
- paltry
- pointless
- poor
- profitless
- sterile
- trashy
- trifling
- trivial
- unavailing
- unessential
- unimportant
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unusable
- useless
- valueless
- waste
- wretched
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