Futile - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈfjuːtl|
Brit.
|ˈfjuːtaɪl|
adjective
- producing no result or effect (syn: ineffectual, meaningless, otiose, unavailing)
a futile effort
- unproductive of success (syn: bootless, fruitless, vain)futile years after her artistic peak
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All our efforts proved futile.
It's futile to speculate about what might have been.
My efforts to go back to sleep proved futile.
It was futile to continue the negotiations.
This sums up Owen's thoughts on the futility of war.
...his deathly pallor suggested that any attempt to find a pulse would be futile...
...a futile war that is now regarded as the exemplification of national naïveté and arrogance...
In a digitized land of national ID cards, dropping out will be impossible, and dreaming about it will be futile.
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