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valueless

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Having no value; worthless.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: invaluable, no-good, 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, 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: invaluable, unvaluable, valuable, estimable, worthy, worthly, prizable, treasurous, worth every penny

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adjective satellite

Meaning 2

of no value

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English value Proto-Indo-European *lewh1- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English valueless From value + -less.

Across languages

Translations

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: без стойност (bez stojnost) — having no value
  • Danish: værdiløs — having no value
  • Finnish: arvoton — having no value
  • Georgian: უსარგებლო (usargeblo) — having no value
  • Georgian: გამოუსადეგარი (gamousadegari) — having no value
  • Georgian: ღირებულების გარეშე (ɣirebulebis gareše) — having no value
  • Hindi: मूल्यहीन (mūlyahīn) — having no value
  • Kazakh: бағаламадың (bağalamadyñ) — having no value
  • Macedonian: безвреден (bezvreden) — having no value
  • Spanish: sin valor — having no value
  • Ottoman Turkish: دكرسز (değersiz) — having no value