worthlessadjective
uk/ˈwɜːθ.ləs/us/ˈwɝːθ.ləs/worthless adjective (NO MONEY)
C2 having no value in money:
The company's shares are now virtually worthless.
He said the jewels were worthless fakes.
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Costing little or no money
- bargain
- bargain bin
- cheap rate
- cheaply
- cut-price
- downscale
- economy-size
- knock-down
- low-cost
- low-rent
- mass market
- nothing
- offer
- reasonably
- snip
- something
- song
- steal
- tacky
- trinket
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worthless adjective (NOT IMPORTANT)
C1 not important or not useful:
She was criticized so much by her employers that she began to feel worthless.
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- moon around
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- unwieldy
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
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worthlessness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈwɜːθ.ləs.nəs/us/ˈwɝːθ.ləs.nəs/
People who have been abused as children often experience feelings/a sense of worthlessness.