useless

inútil, inservible

Que no se puede usar o no sirve para hacer nada.

En inglés sencillo: Something like this cannot be used or does not help you do anything.

• This broken phone is useless.
• The key was useless because they had changed the lock.
• Are these old cables completely useless now?

Sinónimos: unusable, good for nothing

Antónimos: useful

Expresiones frecuentes: useless tool, completely useless

inútil, vano

Dicho de una acción que no logrará nada ni mejorará la situación.

En inglés sencillo: An action like this will not achieve anything or improve the situation.

• Further discussion is useless.
• It was useless to argue with him.
• They made several useless attempts to start the engine.

Cómo se usa: it is useless to do something (It is useless to complain after the decision is final.)

Sinónimos: pointless, futile

Antónimos: worthwhile

Expresiones frecuentes: useless effort, useless to argue