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nutteloos — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • futile adjective Producing no useful result; pointless or doomed to fail.
  • idle adj Not working, active, or in use.
  • useless adjective Not able to be used; serving no practical purpose.
  • vain adj Excessively proud of one's own looks or achievements.

Senses

nutteloos is used for these senses in English:

  • futile Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
  • idle Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
  • useless Without use or possibility to be used.
  • vain Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.

idle — full definition

  1. adj Not working, active, or in use.
  2. adj Lazy or unwilling to work.
  3. verb Of an engine, to run slowly while not driving anything, such as a car sitting still with the motor on.
  4. verb To pass time doing nothing productive.

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