no use

Meanings

nounno use (uncountable)

uncountableCondition 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
colloquialuncountableNo point or advantage.
No use crying over spilt milk.
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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.
It's no use you/your apologizing now: it is too late.
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

Chinese Mandarin 白搭, 無濟於事 /无济于事

Finnish hyödytön

French inutile

Hindi व्यर्थ

Japanese 無駄

Spanish inútil

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