We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of uselessness in English
Usage of uselessness in English
1
Gibson had a sudden sense of the uselessness of his fire power.
2
We were right about the uselessness of our going to the hospital.
3
But he realised the uselessness of it all, and abandoned the impulse.
4
Seeing the uselessness of their efforts the Dahomans gradually slackened their fire.
5
And slowly the uselessness, the hopelessness of his being there overcame her.
6
She felt the uselessness of her protest, the ungraciousness of her demeanour.
7
One clergyman with whom I remonstrated on the uselessness of giving 1s.
8
By this time they are aware of the uselessness of their cannonade.
9
One short hour sufficed to prove the utter uselessness of our efforts.
10
West felt the utter uselessness of an attempt to appeal to either.
11
Perhaps Bob realized the uselessness, the danger of retaining such an attitude.
12
He is the life of it, and I am doomed to uselessness.'
13
In plain language, apathy, inaction, idleness, uselessness, is the road to degeneration.
14
Pierette has already made our views clear on the uselessness of your triumvirate.
15
He had seen the uselessness of remonstrance against the intentions of the king.
16
You and I have a lot in common, not least our shared uselessness.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Translations for uselessness
Russian
Portuguese
Catalan
Spanish
Uselessness through the time
Uselessness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common