English noun: worthlessness |
1. | worthlessness (attribute) having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful |
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| Samples | The drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness.
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| Synonyms | ineptitude |
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| Broader (hypernym) | quality |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | damn, darn, emptiness, fecklessness, groundlessness, hoot, idleness, paltriness, red cent, shit, shoddiness, shucks, sorriness, tinker's dam, tinker's damn, trashiness, valuelessness, vanity |
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| Antonyms | worth |
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2. | worthlessness (attribute) the quality of being without practical use |
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| Broader (hypernym) | inutility, unusefulness, uselessness |
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