Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with useless in American Collocation
useless
adjective
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What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
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.