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adj
- Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
- (colloquial, somewhat derogatory) Of a person, Unable to do well at a particular task or endeavor.
- (derogatory, of a person) Good-for-nothing; not dependable.
- Without use or the possibility to be used.
- having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
noun
- Something useless on which time or effort is wasted.
- A rarity.
- (journalism) A news item of no real significance, usually of whimsical or sentimental nature, placed at the end of a news bulletin or in a newspaper as filler. A dead donkey can often be removed from the programme or publication if a more significant story needs extra time or space.
verb
noun
noun
noun
adj
- Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.
- Showy; ostentatious.
- Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
- Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
- unproductive of success
noun
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
- irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis
- The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
- A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces.
noun
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
- damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength
- the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
- The result of being impaired.
- An inefficient part or factor.
- A disability or handicap.
- A deterioration or weakening.
prep_phrase
adj
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- (programming) Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.
- (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- lacking any legal or binding force
- containing nothing
noun
- (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A black cat.
- (medicine, urology) An instance of urination.
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.
- (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- (bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.
- An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
- an empty area or space
- the state of nonexistence
verb
- (transitive, medicine) Synonym of empty (verb).
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
- clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something
- declare invalid
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- excrete or discharge from the body
adv
- Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
- From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
- Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
- (nautical) To the opposite tack: see go about.
- To a reversed order, direction, or condition; half round; in (or to, or from) the opposite direction.
- On all sides, or in every or any direction from a point; around.
- Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
- Near; in the vicinity.
- in the area or vicinity
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- all around or on all sides
- in rotation or succession
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
adj
prep
- (figurative) On or near (one's person); attached as an attribute to; in the makeup of, or at the command of.
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of; around.
- Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
- (with 'to' and verb infinitive) See about to.
- Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
- Concerned or occupied with; engaged in; intent on.
- On one’s person; nearby the person.
- Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of.
verb
adj
noun
- A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
- (informal) A failure of any kind.
- (informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
- (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an explosion that fails to occur
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
noun
- (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
- (Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
- (countable, British, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
- (Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.
- (countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
- (with the, uncountable, colloquial) Tobacco.
- (uncountable, informal, originally slang) Cannabis.
- Ellipsis of duckweed.
- (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
- street names for marijuana
- any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
- a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
verb
- (library science, transitive) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
- simple past and past participle of wee
- (figurative, transitive) To pilfer the best items from a collection.
- clear of weeds
noun
adj
verb
verb
noun
noun
- (figuratively, by extension) A tedious, repetitive, unfulfilling activity or situation, especially one in which no progress is achieved.
- A circular cage for a squirrel or other small animal, which rotates vertically as the animal runs at the bottom.
- (engineering) Any other device, such as a fan or rotor, that resembles a squirrel cage in form.
- cage with a cylindrical framework that rotates as a small animal runs inside it
noun
verb
adj
- Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
- Mentally dull or unproductive; stupid or intellectually fallow.
- (of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
- (of plants, not comparable) Not bearing seed or fruit.
- (of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
- Devoid of interest or attraction, poor, bleak.
- (with of) Devoid, lacking.
- completely wanting or lacking
- providing no shelter or sustenance
- not bearing offspring
noun
- (usually in the plural) In particular, a usually elevated and flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs, and sometimes mosses or heathers, berries, and other marshy or moory vegetation, but little agriculture and few people.
- An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
verb
- To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
- (ambitransitive) To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
- To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
- To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
- consider not very seriously
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- waste time
noun
noun
- Something useless on which time or effort is wasted.
- A rarity.
- (journalism) A news item of no real significance, usually of whimsical or sentimental nature, placed at the end of a news bulletin or in a newspaper as filler. A dead donkey can often be removed from the programme or publication if a more significant story needs extra time or space.
noun
noun
noun
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
- irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis
- The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
- A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces.
noun
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
- damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength
- the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
- The result of being impaired.
- An inefficient part or factor.
- A disability or handicap.
- A deterioration or weakening.
noun
- (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
- (Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
- (countable, British, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
- (Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.
- (countable) Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
- (with the, uncountable, colloquial) Tobacco.
- (uncountable, informal, originally slang) Cannabis.
- Ellipsis of duckweed.
- (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
- street names for marijuana
- any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
- a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
verb
- (library science, transitive) To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
- simple past and past participle of wee
- (figurative, transitive) To pilfer the best items from a collection.
- clear of weeds
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (figuratively, by extension) A tedious, repetitive, unfulfilling activity or situation, especially one in which no progress is achieved.
- A circular cage for a squirrel or other small animal, which rotates vertically as the animal runs at the bottom.
- (engineering) Any other device, such as a fan or rotor, that resembles a squirrel cage in form.
- cage with a cylindrical framework that rotates as a small animal runs inside it
noun
verb
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
- (ambitransitive) To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
- To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
- To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
- consider not very seriously
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- waste time
noun
adv
- Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
- From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
- Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
- (nautical) To the opposite tack: see go about.
- To a reversed order, direction, or condition; half round; in (or to, or from) the opposite direction.
- On all sides, or in every or any direction from a point; around.
- Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
- Near; in the vicinity.
- in the area or vicinity
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- all around or on all sides
- in rotation or succession
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
adj
prep
- (figurative) On or near (one's person); attached as an attribute to; in the makeup of, or at the command of.
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of; around.
- Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
- (with 'to' and verb infinitive) See about to.
- Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
- Concerned or occupied with; engaged in; intent on.
- On one’s person; nearby the person.
- Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of.
verb
adj
- Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
- (colloquial, somewhat derogatory) Of a person, Unable to do well at a particular task or endeavor.
- (derogatory, of a person) Good-for-nothing; not dependable.
- Without use or the possibility to be used.
- having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
adj
- Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.
- Showy; ostentatious.
- Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
- Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
- unproductive of success
adj
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- (programming) Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.
- (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- lacking any legal or binding force
- containing nothing
noun
- (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A black cat.
- (medicine, urology) An instance of urination.
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.
- (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- (bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.
- An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
- an empty area or space
- the state of nonexistence
verb
- (transitive, medicine) Synonym of empty (verb).
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
- clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something
- declare invalid
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- excrete or discharge from the body
adj
noun
- A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
- (informal) A failure of any kind.
- (informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
- (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an explosion that fails to occur
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
adj
- Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
- Mentally dull or unproductive; stupid or intellectually fallow.
- (of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
- (of plants, not comparable) Not bearing seed or fruit.
- (of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
- Devoid of interest or attraction, poor, bleak.
- (with of) Devoid, lacking.
- completely wanting or lacking
- providing no shelter or sustenance
- not bearing offspring
noun
- (usually in the plural) In particular, a usually elevated and flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs, and sometimes mosses or heathers, berries, and other marshy or moory vegetation, but little agriculture and few people.
- An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation