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单词 worthless
释义
worthless
adjective
uk
/ˈwɜːθ.ləs/us
/ˈwɝːθ.ləs/

worthlessadjective(NO MONEY)

C2
having novalueinmoney:
无价值的；不值钱的
The company'ssharesare nowvirtuallyworthless.那家公司的股票实际上现在已经毫无价值。
He said thejewelswere worthlessfakes.他说这些珠宝是毫无价值的赝品。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Costing little or no money
  • chargeless
  • cheap
  • cheap rate
  • cheapness
  • chintzy
  • comp
  • compliment
  • complimentary
  • cut-price
  • economy-size
  • entry level
  • ex gratia
  • free of charge
  • glossy
  • inexpensive
  • nominal
  • nothing
  • rock bottom
  • schlock
  • valueless
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worthlessadjective(NOT IMPORTANT)

C1
notimportantor notuseful:
不重要的；没有价值的
She wascriticizedso much by heremployersthat shebegantofeelworthless.她多次挨老板们的批评，因而开始觉得自己一无是处。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
useless
  • uselessWe have cleared out carloads of useless junk.
  • no useMoney is no use if it's just sitting there.
  • serve no purposeSuch warnings serve no purpose other than to scare the public.
  • pointlessShe sees cleaning as a pointless exercise since everything is going to get dirty again.
  • worthlessThe majority of objects in the exhibition are worthless junk.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Useless and futile
  • a mug's gameidiom
  • adrift
  • aimless
  • aimlessly
  • aimlessness
  • airy-fairy
  • frivolous
  • frivolousness
  • fruitless
  • fruitlessly
  • fruitlessness
  • moon around
  • motiveless
  • negate
  • negation
  • unfavourably
  • unfruitful
  • unrealistic
  • unrealistically
  • untilyou areblue in the faceidiom
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Related word

worthlessness
(Definition ofworthlessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

worthless| American Dictionary

worthless
adjective
us
/ˈwɜrθ·ləs/

worthlessadjective(MONEY)

having novalueinmoney:
Now that thecompanyhas gonebankrupt,yourcontractis worthless.

worthlessadjective(IMPORTANCE)

unimportantoruseless:
Examples of this artist’s earlyworksremindme that he was not worthless, as somereviewersseemedtofeel.
(Definition ofworthlessfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

worthless| Business English

worthless
adjective
uk
/ˈwɜːθləs/us
having novalue:
Thestockisvirtuallyworthless,tradingat less than 6centsashare.
notimportantoruseful:
Thesecuritysystemheboughtturnedout to be worthless.
(Definition ofworthlessfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofworthless

worthless
The state should invest its scarce treasure in his alchemy: he had taken abundant,worthless"debris" and spun it into gold.
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However, the fact that we cannot examine the causes of events on the basis of legitimations does not render these documentsworthlessas historical evidence.
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They had no interest in changing the situation, since they often truly believed the children wereworthless.
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Indeed, she is so ' 'worthless' ' that she is never named in the novel.
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Inauthentic happiness is not prudentiallyworthless, nor is it simply bad.
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Without it, my pursuit - and the steadiness, patience, seclusion, regularity, hard work, and self-concentration, it demands - would be utterlyworthlessto me.
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The factory has transformed the diverse,worthlessrags and narrator into clean, homogenous paper, which is spiritual and ready for thought.
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A sample without accurate locality data is largelyworthlessand it sets a bad example for collectors to include photographs of material without proper data.
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By lunchtime on the following day, everything - including its abject side, the expulsion of theworthless, consumed commodity - has disappeared from view.
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In other words: competition is either an ineffective means to a valuable end or an effective means to aworthlessend - iconoclastic indeed.
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To treat them asworthlessis to lose information that might be useful.
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An intermediate-goods producer who thinks that banks' bills of exchange in gold areworthlessdoes not accept them in payment, and produces nothing.
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Unless the test is totallyworthless, coverage is not an effective way of controlling such tests.
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Even the most sophisticated statistical analyses areworthlessif the relationship between data and conclusions is improperly understood.
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If the monitor finds a 'worthless' tile in the bag, the health care worker is not compensated.
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