VALUELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does valueless mean? 

• VALUELESS (adjective)
  The adjective VALUELESS has 1 sense:

1. of no value

  Familiarity information: VALUELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALUELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of no value

Similar:

worthless (lacking in usefulness or value)

Derivation:

valuelessness (having none of the properties that endow something with value)

 Context examples 

Of course life is valueless, except to itself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Why do I struggle to retain a valueless life?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is all valueless anyway.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If your abhorrence of me should make my assertions valueless, you cannot be prevented by the same cause from confiding in my cousin; and that there may be the possibility of consulting him, I shall endeavour to find some opportunity of putting this letter in your hands in the course of the morning.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Elinor saw, and pitied her for, the neglect of abilities which education might have rendered so respectable; but she saw, with less tenderness of feeling, the thorough want of delicacy, of rectitude, and integrity of mind, which her attentions, her assiduities, her flatteries at the Park betrayed; and she could have no lasting satisfaction in the company of a person who joined insincerity with ignorance; whose want of instruction prevented their meeting in conversation on terms of equality, and whose conduct toward others made every shew of attention and deference towards herself perfectly valueless.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Of course it's all valueless, just so much dull and sordid plodding; but it is no more dull and sordid than keeping books at sixty dollars a month, adding up endless columns of meaningless figures until one dies.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)