useful vs useless
Definitions
adjective
- having a useful function
- being of use or service
Examples
All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality.
There's a lot of useful information on the countries in the world at the back of the dictionary.
The figures are a useful guideline when buying a house.
Definitions
adjective
- having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
Examples
I'’m bored" is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say "I’m bored.". Louis C.K.
Speed ramps along College Road, put in to try and dissuade boy racers who use the road to cut from one side of the town to the other, have been branded useless.
I astound myself with my memory for useless childhood trivia.
