Worthless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Worthless \Worth"less\, a. [AS. weor[eth]le['a]s.]
     Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence,
     dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile;
     mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless
     man or woman; a worthless magistrate.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           'T is a worthless world to win or lose.  --Byron.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Worth"less*ly}, adv. -- {Worth"less*ness},
     n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  worthless
       adj : lacking in excellence or value; "a worthless idler" [ant: {valuable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  140 Moby Thesaurus words for "worthless":
     NG, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly,
     beneath contempt, beneath notice, blameworthy, bootless, brutal,
     cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, defective,
     deleterious, deplorable, despicable, detestable, detrimental, dire,
     disadvantageous, disgusting, disserviceable, dreadful, dusty,
     egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flawed, foul,
     fulsome, fustian, gaudy, gimcracky, good-for-naught,
     good-for-nothing, grievous, gross, harmful, hateful, heinous,
     horrible, horrid, imperfect, incapable, incompetent, ineffectual,
     infamous, inferior, injurious, junk, junky, lamentable, loathsome,
     lousy, mean, meaningless, mediocre, meretricious, meritless,
     miserable, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, no-account, no-good,
     noisome, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile,
     nothing, notorious, nugacious, nugatory, obnoxious, odious,
     offensive, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor,
     prejudicial, purposeless, rank, regrettable, reprehensible,
     repulsive, rotten, rubbishy, sad, scandalous, schlock, scrubby,
     scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-rate, shabby, shameful,
     shocking, shoddy, sordid, sorry, squalid, terrible, too bad,
     trashy, trivial, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny,
     twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unadvantageous, unavailing, unclean,
     unfavorable, unprofitable, unpurposed, unqualified, unrewarding,
     unworthy, unworthy of regard, useless, valueless, vile, villainous,
     woeful, worst, wretched