{
    "term": "useless",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "not useful; not doing or achieving what is needed or wanted",
            "sensetop": "useless to do somethinguseless doing something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This pen is useless."
                },
                {
                    "text": "All I got from him was some useless advice and a loan of £200."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He knew it was useless to protest.",
                    "contextForm": "useless to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's useless worrying about it.",
                    "contextForm": "useless doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The quality ranged from acceptable to worse than useless."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She tried to work, but it was useless *(= she wasn't able to)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A computer program with too many icons is worse than useless."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her efforts to avoid him proved useless."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The condition rendered her legs virtually useless."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The information was useless to him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The land is useless for cattle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are two manuals, both of them equally useless."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They rejected the designs as useless."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This drug is useless in the treatment of patients with AIDS."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Critics argued that the space programme was a useless waste of money."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The letter is useless as evidence."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "prove"],
                "adverb": ["absolutely", "completely", "entirely"],
                "preposition": ["as", "for", "in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "not very good at something; not able to do things well",
            "sensetop": "useless at somethinguseless at doing something",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm useless at French.",
                    "contextForm": "useless at something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm pretty useless at this job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm useless at remembering names.",
                    "contextForm": "useless at doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't ask her to help. She's useless."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["absolutely", "completely", "pretty"],
                "preposition": ["at"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːsləs/",
                "audio": "us/useless/useless__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːsləs/",
                "audio": "us/useless/useless__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}