uselessly

1. 1.

   in a useless manner

   “the furniture was sitting around uselessly”

   Antonymsusefully

Questions about uselessly

What does uselessly mean?

uselessly means "in a useless manner".

How many syllables are in uselessly?

uselessly has 4 syllables and divides as u-se-les-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of uselessly?

The recorded antonyms are usefully.

Is uselessly a common word?

uselessly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.