Inútil in english
Useless
pronunciation: jusləs part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: jusləs part of speech: adjective
In gestures
inútil1 = futile ; useless ; helpless ; ineffectual ; inutile ; wasteful ; good-for-nothing ; vain ; toothless ; ineffective ; unavailing.
Example: To describe discursively all that an imaginatively successful scene in fiction or drama or poem says, means and is would be futile.Example: Numerous titles which have to be entered under the title, as you prescribed are completely useless.Example: In imposing penalties for book stealing libraries are particularly helpless.Example: A perusal of book reviews shows that many parental figures fall into one of two categories -- ineffectual or antagonistic.Example: However, only certain philosophies are deemed relevant to social scientific inquiry; linguistic theory & deconstructionism are identified as inutile.Example: It is thus uneconomical and wasteful of space in the catalogue to provide entries for documents under all synonymous subject headings.Example: He was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man and his shrewish wife was constantly importuning him.Example: Some users hope that market forces will force some of the smaller hosts out of the marketplace, but with cheaper telecommunications and computing technology this seems something of a vain hope.Example: This is what happens when a company does not listen to their customers, you end up with a toothless and ineffective policy.Example: Too often US library professionals have difficulty 'code switching' in order to accommodate the foreign students' needs and resort to familiar but ineffective patterns.Example: Shrigley finds humour in flat depictions of the inconsequential, the unavailing and the bizarre -- although he is far fonder of violent or otherwise disquieting subject matter.more:
» algo inútil = a dead dog ; a dead duck .
Example: For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. Example: Meritocracy is a dead duck -- a child from a 'modest' background can only go from rags to riches in the sense that a human being can take off if they flap their arms around wildly enough.» cosa inútil = dead horse .
Example: And if the topic does become tomorrow's carrion, it would not, perhaps, be inappropriate that it was buried under its own dead horse subject heading.» esfuerzo inútil = wasted energy .
Example: However, the time spent at the front end of the process saves frustration and wasted energy farther into the process.» misión inútil = fool's errand .
Example: I'd like to explain that treating online poker as though it is a science based on mathematic principles is a fool's errand for most of us.» objeto inútil = useless object .
Example: The human race has been making useless objects from the very earliest times.» resultar inútil = prove + unavailing ; prove + fruitless .
Example: Every effort to renew her strength proved unavailing, and she died in 1867, greatly beloved and lamented. Example: At the same time, he began several diplomatic initiatives to free the hostages, all of which proved fruitless.» ser inútil = fire + blanks .
Example: Real Madrid spurned the chance to replace Barcelona at the top of the Spanish first division as they fired blanks in a frustrating 0-0 draw at Osasuna.» tarea inútil = exercise in futility .
Example: They're exercises in futility, a waste of precious time.inútil2 = deadwood [dead wood] ; duffer ; blunderer.
Example: Ostensibly, the maneuver was accomplished to curb patronage abuses and make it easier to dismiss deadwood employees in the long run.Example: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.Example: So they aren't going to be able to teach it to them and those bastards will go on fouling up, making blunderers out of people who will then be turned loose to convince more generations of people that math is terrible stuff.more:
» ser un auténtico inútil = be a dead loss .
Example: There is now never the need for someone with a hair problem to feel that the problem cannot be solved; hair loss is no longer a dead loss!.