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worthless

adj
/ˈwɝθləs/US/ˈwɜːθləs/UK

Etymology

From Middle English *worthles, from Old English weorþlēas (“worthless”), equivalent to worth + -less. Cognate with Dutch waardeloos (“worthless”), German wertlos (“worthless”), Swedish värdelös (“worthless”).

  1. inherited from weorþlēas — “worthless”
  2. inherited from *worthles✻

Definitions

  1. Having no worth or use

    Having no worth or use; without value.

    • Don’t be a worthless slouch! Go get yourself a job.
    • Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.
    • The committee’s decision is worthless and not going to be acted upon.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at worthless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at worthless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at worthless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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