Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: useless – utter
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useless, adj. [see use, n.] (webplay: name, names).
Vain; unproductive; ineffectual; worthless.
usher (-s), n. [AFr usser.]
Doorman; guide; chamberlain; forerunner; precursor; one who precedes or arrives before another; servant who attends the door of a court or a chamber.
usher (-ed), v. [OFr huisier.] (webplay: stranger).
Escort; guide; admit ceremoniously; act as a harbinger for.
usually (usual), adv. [OFr usual + -ly.] (webplay: men).
- Ever; always.
- Commonly; habitually; customarily.
usurp (-ed, -s), v. [OFr usurper, seize for use, employ.]
- Dispossess; supplant; assume predominance over.
- Expropriate; seize; take.
utmost, adj. [OE útemest.]
Furthest; uttermost; highest; greatest.
utmost, n. [see utmost, adj.]
- Greatest power; furthest extent; highest degree; greatest effort.
- Limit; extremity.
- Ultimate; extreme.
utter (-est), adj. [OE útera.] (webplay: pronounced).
- Utmost; perfect.
- Absolute; excessive; final; extreme.
utter, adv. [OE útor.]
Completely; finally; totally.
utter (-ed, -s), v. [MDu uteren, drive away, speak, show.] (webplay: word).
- Speak; pronounce; articulate; put into words; say with a quiet voice.
- Pray; plead.
- Whistle; call; [fig.] sing; chant; [metaphor] publish; circulate; compose in meter; express in poetry.
- Say to; tell to.