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- Useless - a. - Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.
- Dysteleology - n. - The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism.
- Positivism - n. - A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.
- Wasteful - a. - Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.
- Spoil - v. t. - To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.
- Fate - n. - The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
- Deadwood - n. - Dead trees or branches; useless material.
- Cumber - v. t. - To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.
- Encumber - v. t. - To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning.
- Garble - v. t. - To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices.
- Prune - v. t. - To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.
- Discard - v. t. - To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.
- Prune - v. t. - To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.
- Inanity - n. - An inane, useless thing or pursuit; a vanity; a silly object; -- chiefly in pl.; as, the inanities of the world.
- Useless - a. - Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.
- Clean - superl. - Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
- Waste - v. - The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
- Waste - a. - To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
- Fig - n. - To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.
- Cass - v. t. - To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.
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- G889 ἀχρειόω - 889 ἀχρειόω - ἈΧΡΕΙΌΩ - - achreióō - akh-ri-o'-o - from ἀχρεῖος; to render useless, i.e. spoil:--become unprofitable. - Verb - greek
- G888 ἀχρεῖος - 888 ἀχρεῖος - ἈΧΡΕῖΟΣ - - achreîos - akh-ri'-os - from Α (as a negative particle) and a derivative of χρή (compare χρεία); useless, i.e. (euphemistically) unmeritorious:--unprofitable. - Adjective - greek
- G512 ἀνωφελής - 512 ἀνωφελής - ἈΝΩΦΕΛΉΣ - - anōphelḗs - an-o-fel'-ace - from Α (as a negative particle) and the base of ὠφέλιμος; useless or (neuter) inutility:--unprofitable(-ness). - Adjective - greek
- G692 ἀργός - 692 ἀργός - ἈΡΓΌΣ - - argós - ar-gos' - from Α (as a negative particle) and ἔργον; inactive, i.e. unemployed; (by implication) lazy, useless:--barren, idle, slow. - Adjective - greek
- H890 בׇּאְשָׁה - 890 בׇּאְשָׁה - בׇּאְשָׁה - - boʼshâh - bosh-aw' - feminine of בְּאֹשׁ; stink-weed or any other noxious or useless plant; cockle. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H2600 חִנָּם - 2600 חִנָּם - חִנָּם - - chinnâm - khin-nawm' - from חֵן; gratis, i.e. devoid of cost, reason or advantage; without a cause (cost, wages), causeless, to cost nothing, free(-ly), innocent, for nothing (nought, in vain. - Adverb - heb
- G2673 καταργέω - 2673 καταργέω - ΚΑΤΑΡΓΈΩ - - katargéō - kat-arg-eh'-o - from κατά and ἀργέω; to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively:--abolish, cease, cumber, deliver, destroy, do away, become (make) of no (none, without) effect, fail, loose, bring (come) to nought, put away (down), vanish away, make void. - Verb - greek
- H7723 שָׁוְא - 7723 שָׁוְא - שָׁוְא - - shâvᵉʼ - shawv - or שַׁו; from the same as שׁוֹא in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain); false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity. - Noun Masculine - heb
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- Proverbs 20 26:2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
צִפּוֹר נוּד דְּרוֹר עוּף קְלָלָה חִנָּם בּוֹא - 1 Samuel 9 25:31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
פּוּקָה מִכְשׁוֹל לֵב אָדוֹן שָׁפַךְ דָּם חִנָּם אָדוֹן יָשַׁע יְהֹוָה יָטַב אָדוֹן זָכַר אָמָה