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futile
/ˈfju.taɪl/
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What does futile mean?
adjective
- Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
- Insignificant; frivolous.
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The names are mere futile labels with which an historian who goes to the bottom of things need scarcely concern himself.
In despair I tried to force the thing, but the cold, unyielding stone might well have laughed at my futile, puny endeavors.
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But after three days of futile effort he gave up the attempt, and turned his attention to more practical means of defence.
He will go round, for it is futile to give up very many species, and stop at an arbitrary line at others.
I know this--because I spent almost twenty years of my life in a well-nigh futile search for the very knowledge herein revealed.