uselessly

English

Etymology

useless +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

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Adverb

uselessly (comparative more uselessly, superlative most uselessly)

1. In a useless manner.
2. To no useful purpose.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 213:

     Mr. Civil, warned and guided by distant axe-whangs, had found them, and had been unsparing in his condemnation of Jim's stupid waste of time in coming an unnecessary mile to chop down a tree uselessly far away.

Translations

in a useless manner

• Catalan: inútilment (ca)
• Chinook Jargon: k'ax̣chi
• Finnish: turhasti, kelvottomasti (fi)
• Old English: unnytlīċe
• Polish: bezużytecznie
• Portuguese: inutilmente (pt)
• Scottish Gaelic: gun fheum
• Spanish: inútilmente (es)

to no useful purpose

• Finnish: turhaan (fi)
• French: inutilement (fr)
• Middle English: ydelly
• Norman: innutilement
• Old English: unnytlīċe
• Polish: bezużytecznie
• Scottish Gaelic: gun fheum