worthless

US /ˈwɝθləs/ · UK /ˈwɜːθləs/

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”).

Synonyms

76 terms

bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish, draffy, dreckish, drecky, duffing, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, for the birds, fucking, garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable, jabberwocky, junky, mouldy, mucid, naughty, no-account, no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room, not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought, of no value, pissass, punk, putid, rubbishly, rubbishy, sixpenny, scabbed, screwy, scummy, shand, shit, shitey, shitstained, shitty-ass, sorry-ass, strawlike, suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy, trinkety, triobolar, tripy, two-bit, unappreciated, unvaluable, vain, valueless, worthless, worth nothing, wutless

Antonyms

valuable, precious, priceless

Derived terms

worthlessly, worthlessness

Related terms

42 terms

low-value, almost worthless, nearly worthless, next to worthless, near-worthless, of little value, of very little value, of low value, cheap, a dime a dozen, disdainful, ten a penny, low-grade, low-quality, junk, unnecessary, futile, pointless, meaningless, insignificant, useless, unhelpful, unusable, unprofitable, trumpery, barren, not worth the paper it is printed on, better than nothing, worth, value, price, use, utility, benefit, profit, quality, excellence, trash, trifle, worthless person, that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee, Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 812b. Worthlessness

Hypernyms

lacking