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no use

noun

Definitions

  1. Condition of being pointless, useless, not worth doing, especially because it is not…

    Condition of being pointless, useless, not worth doing, especially because it is not likely to succeed.

    • It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours.

  2. No point or advantage.

    • No use crying over spilt milk.
    • There is no use in studying medicine if there are too many doctors already.
    • Explaining things to you is of no use because you never listen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for no use. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA