Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Useless

Useless , adjective

Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.
Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous. — Milton
Useless are all words Till you have writ “performance” with your swords. The other is for waiving. — Beau. & Fl
Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation to this controversy, as being either needless or fruitless. — Waterland
Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was ineffectual to many. — Bp. Stillingfleet