ἄχρησ-τος, ον,
useless, unprofitable, μετάνοια[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; χρεομένῳ ἄχρηστα
useless if you try to use them, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
without effect, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄ. τινι
useless to a person, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῇ πόλει[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2) ={ἀχρεῖος} (which it almost superseded in the Oratt. and later Greek),
useless, do-nothing, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἄ. πολῖται[
Refs 4th c.BC+]; σοφισταί probable reading in [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
non-effective, unwarlike, Eun.Hist.p.239D; so (with a pun—
not having received an oracle) [
Refs 2nd c.AD+].
adverb -τως, ἔχειν πρός τι[
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II)
unkind, cruel, θεοί[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III)
active,
making no use of, with
dative, ξυνέσει τ᾽ ἄχρηστον τῇ φύσει τε λείπεται[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV)
not used, i.e.
new, ἱμάτια[
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
IV.2)
obsolete, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV.3)
not to be used, unseemly, [
Refs]