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Common collocations with useless in American Collocation

useless adjective

US /ˈjusləs/

completely

absolutely
completely
entirely
quite
really
seemingly
totally
utterly

These theories were absolutely useless when it came to explaining why.

almost

almost
effectively
essentially
largely
mostly
nearly
practically
virtually

The cheap and once very effective anti-malarial drug chloroquine is now almost useless in large parts of the world due to the development of resistance.

So here we have a well publicized list of companies running what is now effectively useless security software.

rather

fairly
pretty
rather

A program may be magnificent in all ways, but if it doesn’t help the user learn what they need to know, it is rather useless.

be or become useless

be
become
prove

The access software soon becomes useless if the latest applications are not included.

seem useless

seem

Everything he had learnt before seemed useless when faced with such real life issues.

make something useless

render something

In some cities, cycle lanes have been rendered completely useless by parked cars.