blue-skies vs useless

blue-skies

adj
  • Unrealistic or impractical. 

  • Of no immediate practical application. 

useless

adj
  • Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action). 

  • Unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting. 

  • Without use or possibility to be used. 

  • Good-for-nothing; not dependable. 

How often have the words blue-skies and useless occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )