jmdict 2117370 Active (id#2271493)
益体もない益体も無い
やくたいもない
  1. [exp,adj-i]
    • useless
    • worthless
    • silly
    • trivial
    Cross references:
    • ⇐ see: 2870538 益体【やくたい】 1. usefulness; utility; being orderly; being proper
History:
    • A 2023-06-09 23:42:58 Jim Breen (id#2271493)
    • A* 2023-06-09 20:26:57 Robin Scott (id#2271486)
    • Comments
      "baloney" isn't an adjective.
    • Refs
      prog, luminous, wisdom
    • Diff
      @@ -18,2 +18,2 @@
      -<gloss>absurd</gloss>
      -<gloss>baloney</gloss>
      +<gloss>silly</gloss>
      +<gloss>trivial</gloss>
    • A 2023-06-08 21:37:39 Jim Breen (id#2271243)
    • A* 2023-06-08 17:04:54 Stephen Kraus (id#2271215)
    • Refs
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
      │ 益体もない   │ 3,332 │ 56.8% │
      │ 益体も無い   │   837 │ 14.3% │
      │ やくたいもない │ 1,700 │ 29.0% │
      ╰─ーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
      +</k_ele>
      +<k_ele>
      +<keb>益体も無い</keb>
      @@ -11,0 +15 @@
      +<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
    • A 2006-12-21 00:00:00
    • Comments
      Entry created
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