words to describe something that are useful and not useful/practical
we buy different things, some are very useful and we use it every day, whereas some are maybe just novel and trendy or has some gimmick or fancy features that compelled you to buy, but it is not really useful to you and you were probably just buy-in the idea or follow the trend/fashion, and later realize that you don't really need it that much after the novelty wears off.

sadly the only words that come to my mind are "userful", "unuseful", "practical", etc, which sounds ok but does not have a very native feeling to me.
can someone please suggest some words to describe it? be it noun or adverb.

Question

words to describe something that are useful and not useful/practical
we buy different things, some are very useful and we use it every day, whereas some are maybe just novel and trendy or has some gimmick or fancy features that compelled you to buy, but it is not really useful to you and you were probably just buy-in the idea or follow the trend/fashion, and later realize that you don't really need it that much after the novelty wears off.

sadly the only words that come to my mind are​ "userful", "unuseful", "practical", etc, which sounds ok but does not have a very native feeling to me.
can someone please suggest some words to describe it? be it noun or adverb.

Answer

Utilitarian could be used, but it is not that common. Essential or Practical are more likely to be used for useful items. A word I particularly like is Gewgew or Geegaws for useless items, but bear in mind this is not widely used,  better to use Trinket, or if it was a piece of technology; Gadget.

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