no use en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Condition of being pointless, useless, not worth doing, especially because it is not likely to succeed.
It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours.
1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I:
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(colloquial, uncountable) No point or advantage.
That clock isn't any use: it keeps losing time.
There is no use in studying medicine if there are too many doctors already.
No use crying over spilt milk.
Explaining things to you is of no use because you never listen.
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.
1962, Bob Dylan, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right:It's no use you/your apologizing now: it is too late.
Deriveds
there's no use · there's no use crying over spilt milk · it's no use crying over spilt milk · it's no use · have no use for · no use crying over spilt milk
Relateds
Translations (10)
cmn 無濟於事 /无济于事 (pointless; useless) · fi hyödytön (pointless; useless) · hi व्यर्थ (pointless; useless) · cmn 沒用 /没用 (pointless; useless) · fr inutile (pointless; useless) · ja 無駄 (pointless; useless) · cmn 白搭 (pointless; useless) · cmn 無用 /无用 (pointless; useless) · io ne-utila (pointless; useless) · es inútil (pointless; useless)