inútil — meaning in English

English meaning

• idle adj Not working, active, or in use.
• pointless adj Having no useful purpose; not worth doing.
• useless adjective Not able to be used; serving no practical purpose.
• worthless adj Having no value or use.

Senses

inútil is used for these senses in English:

• good-for-nothing (idiomatic) Useless; worthless.
• good-for-nothing A person of little worth or usefulness.
• idle Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
• useless Without use or possibility to be used.
• useless Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
• useless (pejorative, of a person) Good-for-nothing; not dependable.
• useless (colloquial, of a person) Unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting.
• worthless Having no worth or use; without value.

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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