worthlessness

worthless | American Dictionary

worthless
adjective
us/ˈwɜrθ·ləs/

worthlessadjective (MONEY)

having no value in money:
Now that the company has gone bankrupt, your contract is worthless.

worthlessadjective (IMPORTANCE)

unimportant or useless:
Examples of this artist’s early works remind me that he was not worthless, as some reviewers seemed to feel.

worthless | Business English

worthless
adjective
uk /ˈwɜːθləs/us
having no value:
The stock is virtually worthless, trading at less than 6 cents a share.
not important or useful:
The security system he bought turned out to be worthless.

Examples of worthless

worthless
The state should invest its scarce treasure in his alchemy: he had taken abundant, worthless "debris" and spun it into gold.
However, the fact that we cannot examine the causes of events on the basis of legitimations does not render these documents worthless as historical evidence.
They had no interest in changing the situation, since they often truly believed the children were worthless.
Indeed, she is so ' ' worthless ' ' that she is never named in the novel.
Inauthentic happiness is not prudentially worthless, nor is it simply bad.
Without it, my pursuit - and the steadiness, patience, seclusion, regularity, hard work, and self-concentration, it demands - would be utterly worthless to me.
The factory has transformed the diverse, worthless rags and narrator into clean, homogenous paper, which is spiritual and ready for thought.
A sample without accurate locality data is largely worthless and it sets a bad example for collectors to include photographs of material without proper data.
By lunchtime on the following day, everything - including its abject side, the expulsion of the worthless, consumed commodity - has disappeared from view.
In other words: competition is either an ineffective means to a valuable end or an effective means to a worthless end - iconoclastic indeed.
To treat them as worthless is to lose information that might be useful.
An intermediate-goods producer who thinks that banks' bills of exchange in gold are worthless does not accept them in payment, and produces nothing.
Unless the test is totally worthless, coverage is not an effective way of controlling such tests.
Even the most sophisticated statistical analyses are worthless if the relationship between data and conclusions is improperly understood.
If the monitor finds a 'worthless' tile in the bag, the health care worker is not compensated.
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