Having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
English: useless
Bahasa: brengsek, mubazir, bersia-sia
sia-siaBahasa Indonesia
futile, vain, bootless, conceited, dead
Common
#3,197 of the corpus · 33.3 per million words · 142,026 occurrences
From sia (reduplication) · less common, #14,563
Adjective
Having no meaning or direction or purpose
English: meaningless, nonmeaningful
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Unproductive of success
English: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain
Bahasa: gagal, sombong, berlagak
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4 more adjective senses
Characteristic of false pride, having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
English: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain
Bahasa: sombong, kembang, megah, bengkak, kembung, berlagak, bermegah, pongah
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Not marked by the use of reason
English: mindless, reasonless, senseless
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Producing no result or effect
English: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing
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Not yielding a return
English: dead, idle
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Adverb
Without need
English: needlessly
To no avail
English: vainly, in vain
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