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单词 valueless
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Definition of valueless in English:

valueless

adjective ˈvaljʊləsˈvæljuləs
  • Having no value; worthless.

    cherished but valueless heirlooms
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Experiences are so often described as ‘life-changing’ that the adjective seems clichéd, almost valueless.
    • The thinking goes like this: with the job markets rendering many first degrees valueless, graduates from redbrick universities can come to Oxford to get their master's qualifications.
    • They're worthless as commodities, but not valueless to humankind.
    • Punishment for its own sake is always a valueless process, which corrects nothing and only serves to vent the pent-up rage of the person or people inflicting it.
    • There are worse things to take into adulthood than a student debt - such as a valueless degree, and an impoverished outlook on life.
    • Don't just write off negative comments as being valueless because they are from people who ‘don't understand’ - that's the oldest trick in the sulky teenager's book.
    • Over time, your plan will shrink, and in the worst cases end up valueless.
    • Doing so would mean that a product that has a value becomes valueless.
    • So, just who are these people who think that I am valueless?
    • The evidence as to the soil samples I regard as valueless in so far as it relates to the acid herbicides, since the laboratory that carried out the analysis considered that the results were inconclusive.
    • I have seen people drop these and larger denominations of coins in the supermarket and not bother to pick them up as they are essentially considered valueless.
    • It is one thing to strive to be ‘value free’ in the scholarship we produce, but quite another to be valueless in the face of attacks on universal standards.
    • If, however, on offering this product no consumers can be found to purchase this tricycle, it is economically valueless, regardless of the misdirected effort that I had expended upon it.
    • To her, and many of her classmates, some of the traditional values are almost valueless and not worth mentioning.
    • It's fine to have compensation, but after three or four year it's valueless.
    • They are now telling us our previous life experience is valueless.
    • But that does not mean that non-operable forest is valueless.
    • Even idle speculation may not be quite valueless if it is recognized for what it is.
    • Having bought her own home, she now accepts it is valueless, and is desperate to go into a council flat.
    • Yes, design competitions are often flawed, but I did say flawed and not utterly misguided and valueless or irredeemably corrupt.
    Synonyms
    worthless, of no (financial) value, of little/negligible value, trifling
    inferior, substandard, second-rate, third-rate, poor-quality, low-quality, low-grade, cheap, shoddy, trashy, rubbishy, tawdry, gimcrack, twopenny-halfpenny, Brummagem
    (be valueless), would fetch nothing
    pointless, useless, to no purpose, (of) no use, unprofitable, profitless, futile, vain, in vain, to no avail, to no effect, fruitless, senseless, unproductive, purposeless, idle, worthless, ineffective, unavailing, nugatory, unrewarding, thankless
    archaic bootless

Derivatives

  • valuelessness

  • noun
    • Likewise, queer theory casts itself not as immorally negative rebellion but as amorally positive, all-embracing, post-humanitarian valuelessness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The feeling of valuelessness was reached with the realization that the overall character of existence may not be interpreted by means of the concept of ‘aim,’ the concept of ‘unity,’ or the concept of ‘truth.’
      • The scene of writing is a potential country-at-war, physically contested, overcompetitive, infected, an inescapable grid of emptiness and valuelessness.
 
 

Definition of valueless in US English:

valueless

adjectiveˈvalyo͞oləsˈvæljuləs
  • Having no value; worthless.

    cherished but valueless heirlooms
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's fine to have compensation, but after three or four year it's valueless.
    • Don't just write off negative comments as being valueless because they are from people who ‘don't understand’ - that's the oldest trick in the sulky teenager's book.
    • To her, and many of her classmates, some of the traditional values are almost valueless and not worth mentioning.
    • Having bought her own home, she now accepts it is valueless, and is desperate to go into a council flat.
    • Doing so would mean that a product that has a value becomes valueless.
    • So, just who are these people who think that I am valueless?
    • I have seen people drop these and larger denominations of coins in the supermarket and not bother to pick them up as they are essentially considered valueless.
    • Over time, your plan will shrink, and in the worst cases end up valueless.
    • There are worse things to take into adulthood than a student debt - such as a valueless degree, and an impoverished outlook on life.
    • Yes, design competitions are often flawed, but I did say flawed and not utterly misguided and valueless or irredeemably corrupt.
    • The evidence as to the soil samples I regard as valueless in so far as it relates to the acid herbicides, since the laboratory that carried out the analysis considered that the results were inconclusive.
    • They're worthless as commodities, but not valueless to humankind.
    • Experiences are so often described as ‘life-changing’ that the adjective seems clichéd, almost valueless.
    • It is one thing to strive to be ‘value free’ in the scholarship we produce, but quite another to be valueless in the face of attacks on universal standards.
    • Punishment for its own sake is always a valueless process, which corrects nothing and only serves to vent the pent-up rage of the person or people inflicting it.
    • But that does not mean that non-operable forest is valueless.
    • Even idle speculation may not be quite valueless if it is recognized for what it is.
    • If, however, on offering this product no consumers can be found to purchase this tricycle, it is economically valueless, regardless of the misdirected effort that I had expended upon it.
    • The thinking goes like this: with the job markets rendering many first degrees valueless, graduates from redbrick universities can come to Oxford to get their master's qualifications.
    • They are now telling us our previous life experience is valueless.
    Synonyms
    worthless, of no value, of no financial value, of little value, of negligible value, trifling
    pointless, useless, to no purpose, no use, of no use, unprofitable, profitless, futile, vain, in vain, to no avail, to no effect, fruitless, senseless, unproductive, purposeless, idle, worthless, ineffective, unavailing, nugatory, unrewarding, thankless
 
 
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