From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Worthless \Worth"less\, adjective [AS. weor[eth]le['a]s.] Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate.
'T is a worthless world to win or lose. --Byron. -- {Worth"less*ly}, adverb -- {Worth"less*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: lacking in excellence or value; "a worthless idler" [ant: {valuable}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
140 Moby Thesaurus words for "worthless": NG, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath notice, blameworthy, bootless, brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, defective, deleterious, deplorable, despicable, detestable, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disgusting, disserviceable, dreadful, dusty, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flawed, foul, fulsome, fustian, gaudy, gimcracky, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, grievous, gross, harmful, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, imperfect, incapable, incompetent, ineffectual, infamous, inferior, injurious, junk, junky, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, mean, meaningless, mediocre, meretricious, meritless, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, no-account, no-good, noisome, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile, nothing, notorious, nugacious, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, prejudicial, purposeless, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rubbishy, sad, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-rate, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sorry, squalid, terrible, too bad, trashy, trivial, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unadvantageous, unavailing, unclean, unfavorable, unprofitable, unpurposed, unqualified, unrewarding, unworthy, unworthy of regard, useless, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, wretched
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