useless

adj.

1 of no use

VERBS

▪ be, feel, prove

▪

Her efforts to avoid him proved useless.

▪ become

▪ leave sth, make sth, render sth

▪

The condition rendered her legs virtually useless.

ADVERB

▪ absolutely, completely, entirely, quite, totally, utterly, wholly (esp. BrE)

▪ worse than

▪

A computer program with too many icons is worse than useless.

▪ all but, almost, nearly, practically, virtually

▪ largely, mostly

▪ basically, essentially

▪ fairly, pretty, rather

▪ seemingly

▪ equally

▪

There are two manuals, both of them equally useless.

PREPOSITION

▪ as

▪

A candle is practically useless as a light source.

▪ for

▪

The land is useless for cattle.

▪ in

▪

This drug is useless in the treatment of patients with AIDS.

▪ to

▪

The information was useless to him.

2 (informal) weak/not successful

VERBS

▪ be

ADVERB

▪ absolutely, completely

▪ pretty

PREPOSITION

▪ at

▪

I'm pretty useless at this job.

Useless is used with these nouns: ↑information, ↑junk, ↑waste