1
as in futility
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2
as in pointlessness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uselessness
Noun
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For more than six long months in 2024, the place had been home to an abundance of pain; futility that defied belief or description.—
Andrew Carter,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025 -
However, this resolution does nothing to assuage the sense of futility and waste.—
Bartolomeo Sala,
The Dial,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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With its founder and leader incarcerated, the Oath Keepers, which once claimed tens of thousands of members, many of them current and former military and law enforcement, also largely fizzled away into insignificance.—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
13 Nov. 2024
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The compositions prioritize headspace for the sky to take over the frame during exterior shots, communicating Rico’s feeling of insignificance against the immensity of what burdens him.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In many ways, Doctor Odyssey is the perfect network television show — one that combines all the wacky inanities of the Ryan Murphy universe with an endless recyclability of form and function.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
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This insight is sort of nihilism lite, and a handy, if somewhat axiomatic, mantra for navigating the inanity of everyday life.—
Alissa Wilkinson,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Uselessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uselessness. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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