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worthless

 adjective
     
worth‧less
1 something that is worthless has no value, importance, or use [≠ valuable]:
The house was full of worthless junk.
The information was worthless to me.
2 a worthless person has no good qualities or useful skills:
His parents had made him feel worthless.
—worthlessness noun [uncountable]
She struggled to overcome her feelings of worthlessness.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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