worthless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective lacking in usefulness or value
    • a worthless idler
  2. adjective satellite morally reprehensible
    unworthy; vile; slimy; wretched; ugly; despicable.
    • would do something as despicable as murder
    • ugly crimes
    • the vile development of slavery appalled them
    • a slimy little liar

WordNet

Worth"less adjective
Etymology
AS. weorthleás.
Definitions
  1. 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, adv. -- Worth"less*ness, n.

Webster 1913