What are some opposite words for useful?

Antonyms for useful
ˈyus fəluse·ful

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  1. usefuladjective

    Antonyms:
    unuseful, harmful, useless

    Synonyms:
    serviceable, utilitarian, noteful

  2. usefuladjective

    Having a practical or beneficial use.

    This tool is very useful. It makes doing this task a lot easier.

    Synonyms:
    noteful, serviceable, utilitarian

    Antonyms:
    harmful, useless, unuseful

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. useful, utileadjective

    being of use or service

    "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"

    Antonyms:
    nonfunctional, inutile, futile, ineffectual, otiose, unuseable, unusable, unserviceable, useless, unavailing

    Synonyms:
    utilitarian, utile

  2. utilitarian, usefuladjective

    having a useful function

    "utilitarian steel tables"

    Antonyms:
    otiose, inutile, ineffectual, unavailing, nonfunctional, unuseable, useless, futile, unusable, unserviceable

    Synonyms:
    utilitarian, utile

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  1. usefuladjective

    Synonyms:
    serviceable, advantageous, available

How to use useful in a sentence?

  1. Kunduz Governor Mohammad Omar Safi:

    ANSF are capable of providing security, but these people know the area better and they are more useful.

  2. Melissa Giller:

    One of the firefighters mentioned that they do believe the goats' fire line helped them fight this fire, they just proved today how useful they really are.

  3. Sherin Aqa:

    The air strikes are very useful and we have been able to make progress with their help, the air strikes must continue for us to stop Daesh.

  4. Mark Thomas:

    The biggest issue that the guys have had to wrestle with is how you cope with extremely high temperatures that come into the engine when you're doing hypersonic speeds; so more than five times the speed of sound, 4,000 miles-per-hour. The temperature coming in at the front of the engine is a thousand degrees centigrade. And you have to be able to cool that air very rapidly to be able to do anything useful with it.

  5. Richard Pazdur:

    The key issue is whether the biomarker is essential for safe and effective use of the drug, if not, then it is probably not going to be an essential element in the indications for the drug. But it would be useful information.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#1412useful
#3009evil
#6415unavailable
#9200deadly
#9672harmful
#9718foul
#10226useless
#12170hostile
#13351destructive
#20371detrimental
#23847preventative
#24683poisonous
#26975futile
#27419cumbersome
#29689obstructive
#31651noxious
#35182unusable
#38128burdensome
#42095injurious
#42256mischievous
#43999deleterious
#48116fruitless
#48711pernicious
#49221antagonistic
#54344hurtful
#55539unprofitable
#61666ineffectual
#84995ruinous
#96594disadvantageous
#101921unwholesome
#109464unavailing
#113000nonfunctional
#131299unserviceable
#132519baneful
#177128perverting
#196741unhealthful
#208241unuseable
#227568noisome
#229994inutile
#264537pestilential
#319156unuseful

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