Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no value; worthless.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destitute of value: having no worth; worthless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Being of no value; having no worth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having no value.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of no value

Etymologies

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value +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Woman and wife being, according to masculine ideas, interchangeable terms, it follows that, since the labour of a wife is valueless from the economic point of view, the labour of any woman is valueless.

    Marriage as a Trade 1909

  • ‘And teaches us how vile and valueless is the opinion of our fellow-men.’

    Chapter 17 - Part X 1822

  • A good many causes have combined to bring about the sweating of women customary in most, if not all, departments of the labour market; but it seems to me that not the least of those causes is the long-established usage of regarding the work of a wife in the home as valueless from the economic point of view – a thing to be paid for (if paid for at all) by occasional gushes of sentiment.

    Marriage as a Trade 1909

  • Must the life be a failure, useless and valueless, that is not as completely happy as it possibly might have been?

    Wisdom and Destiny Maurice Maeterlinck 1905

  • I immediately guessed that, finding her old calling valueless, she had betaken herself to her present mode of life, in the hopes of preying on the superstition and credulity of her fellow-creatures.

    The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • If the prize is located within the marketplace, then all objects outside become 'valueless'.

    Editorial 2001

  • If the prize is located within the marketplace, then all objects outside become 'valueless'.

    Background Documents 2000

  • There is a phrase in one of his own rather vague and "valueless" essays

    Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

  • Nor only the story about how the Arizona desert - deemed at one point a "valueless" land by a U.S.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Nor only the story about how the Arizona desert - deemed at one point a "valueless" land by a U.S.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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