"useless" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

useless adjetivo

useless + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 49
useless thing • useless information • useless piece • useless leg • useless gesture • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(1) thing, emotion, bastard
Kolokacji: 3
(4) gesture, advice, question
Kolokacji: 3
1. useless effort = nieprzydatny wysiłek useless effort
2. useless attempt = bezcelowa próba useless attempt
3. useless exercise = bezcelowe ćwiczenie useless exercise
4. useless hand = niesprawna ręka useless hand
5. useless waste = niepotrzebne odpady useless waste
6. useless life = nieprzydatne życie useless life
7. useless luxury = nieprzydatny luksus useless luxury
8. useless quest = bezcelowe poszukiwanie useless quest
  • Perhaps, Barliss, you are pursuing a useless quest.
  • Better to go back to the ship and the useless quest without a goal, until he should die and the ship and robots should run down and stop.
  • Tell me, I pray you, if you can, so that I may not have travelled on a useless quest.
  • If this woman thought Richard was being too insistent or assertive, she very well might decide to get rid of him by sending him on a useless quest to the ends of the world.
  • 'It seems that I have led you on a useless quest, my friends,' Hawkmoon told Bowgentle and Count Brass.
  • By the time we left the dining-room I could see that he regarded the whole matter as a useless quest, and that he was already wondering whether it would not be better for him to get back to London straight away.
  • 'Poor child,' answered the dove, 'who has sent you on such a useless quest?'
  • According to Harold Bloom, one can presume that the "harmony was threatened if fully half of [the poem] was concerned with the useless quest after "The Melancholy".
  • --accepted this majestic swell as trustworthy circumstantial evidence that no important land lay to the southward, and so did not waste time on a useless quest in that direction, but changed his course and went searching elsewhere.
  • After a long and useless quest it occurred to me that I had better go to the place where the oxen were bred by a Kaffir chief, whose name I forget, but whose kraal was about fifty miles from our station.
(8) junk, hulk
Kolokacji: 2
(9) speculation, one, thought
Kolokacji: 3
(10) trinket, product, paper
Kolokacji: 3
(11) slaughter, sacrifice
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + useless
Kolokacji: 9
render useless • feel useless • prove useless • become useless • hang useless • ...
adverbio + useless
Kolokacji: 21
completely useless • virtually useless • totally useless • utterly useless • pretty useless • ...
useless + preposición
Kolokacji: 11
useless for • useless to • useless in • useless against • useless at • ...

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