All 4 Uses of
futile
in
The Time Machine
- I wasted some time in futile questionings, conveyed, as well as I was able, to such of the little people as came by.†
Chpt 5
- For, by merely seeming fond of me, and showing in her weak, futile way that she cared for me, the little doll of a creature presently gave my return to the neighbourhood of the White Sphinx almost the feeling of coming home; and I would watch for her tiny figure of white and gold so soon as I came over the hill.†
Chpt 5
- The Eloi, like the Carolingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility.
Chpt 7 *futility = pointless effort
- Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(futile) effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful