uselessness

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Useful or advantageous
a pearl of great priceidiom
a place in the sunidiom
advantageous
advantageously
all-singing
amiss
asset
fecundity
fodder
foil
fruitfully
fruitfulness
practicality
preferential
productive
wholesome
wholesomely
wholesomeness
win-win
worthwhile

Examples of usefulness

usefulness
The themes of joy, community and pedagogical usefulness are central in both previous and past experiences.
The usefulness of the proposed approach was demonstrated in the paper by an empirical example on interest-rate data.
A problem with multiparameter type classes is the increased possibilities they introduce for ambiguity in inferred types, impacting their usefulness in many practical situations.
The usefulness of guidelines will depend on how these issues are addressed and how realistic the conclusions are that can be reached.
He also earned himself a reputation for ' moderation ', which increased his usefulness in confrontations with the crown.
One reason was its usefulness in genetic analyses and another that it started epidemics of bacteria with multiple resistances to antibiotics.
An "exemplary" manager who demonstrated "the usefulness of improving the methods of farming" was a welcome guest at scientific societies and meetings (ibid, 142).
The prefaces to the albums explicitly spell out their intended administrative usefulness.
It cannot be overstressed how this detracts from the usefulness of the maps.
Nor, it must be said, does the book contain any references or bibliography, a shortcoming which seriously detracts from its usefulness.
This is why the definition of the process emphasizes validity, novelty, usefulness, and understandability of the results.
Their books seemed to indicate that ' sociological ' theories may have, at least in part, outlived their usefulness.
It also shows the usefulness of using probabilistic context free grammars (which improves recognition accuracy considerably).
Here we see the usefulness of mode information which allows us to schedule guards as early as possible.
Such ineffectiveness not only inspires doubts about the usefulness of the institution, but also lends a particular and anomalous character to the ombudsman's work.
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