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{
"term": "useless",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "not useful; not doing or achieving what is needed or wanted",
"sensetop": "useless to do somethinguseless doing something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "This pen is useless."
},
{
"text": "All I got from him was some useless advice and a loan of £200."
},
{
"text": "He knew it was useless to protest.",
"contextForm": "useless to do something"
},
{
"text": "It's useless worrying about it.",
"contextForm": "useless doing something"
},
{
"text": "The quality ranged from acceptable to worse than useless."
},
{
"text": "She tried to work, but it was useless *(= she wasn't able to)*."
},
{
"text": "A computer program with too many icons is worse than useless."
},
{
"text": "Her efforts to avoid him proved useless."
},
{
"text": "The condition rendered her legs virtually useless."
},
{
"text": "The information was useless to him."
},
{
"text": "The land is useless for cattle."
},
{
"text": "There are two manuals, both of them equally useless."
},
{
"text": "They rejected the designs as useless."
},
{
"text": "This drug is useless in the treatment of patients with AIDS."
},
{
"text": "Critics argued that the space programme was a useless waste of money."
},
{
"text": "The letter is useless as evidence."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "prove"],
"adverb": ["absolutely", "completely", "entirely"],
"preposition": ["as", "for", "in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "not very good at something; not able to do things well",
"sensetop": "useless at somethinguseless at doing something",
"labels": "(informal)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm useless at French.",
"contextForm": "useless at something"
},
{
"text": "I'm pretty useless at this job."
},
{
"text": "I'm useless at remembering names.",
"contextForm": "useless at doing something"
},
{
"text": "Don't ask her to help. She's useless."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be"],
"adverb": ["absolutely", "completely", "pretty"],
"preposition": ["at"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈjuːsləs/",
"audio": "us/useless/useless__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈjuːsləs/",
"audio": "us/useless/useless__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}