no use
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[edit]Noun
[edit]no use (uncountable)
- Condition of being pointless, useless, not worth doing, especially because it is not likely to succeed.
- (colloquial) No point or advantage.
- No use crying over spilt milk.
- There is no use in studying medicine if there are too many doctors already.
- Explaining things to you is of no use because you never listen.
- That clock isn't any use: it keeps losing time.
- 1962, Bob Dylan, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right:
- Well it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If e'en you don't know by now
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't ever do somehow.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]pointless; useless
Further reading
[edit]- “no use”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.