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USELESSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uselessly mean?
• USELESSLY (adverb)
The adverb USELESSLY has 1 sense:
1. in a useless manner
Familiarity information: USELESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a useless manner
Context example:
the furniture was sitting around uselessly
Antonym:
usefully (in a useful manner)
Pertainym:
useless (having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully)
Context examples
Depend upon it that whatever unemployed sum may remain, when I make up my accounts in the spring, I would even rather lay it uselessly by than dispose of it in a manner so painful to you.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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