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Definition
effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful- It was a futile effort that was doomed form the start.
futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
- Negotiations between the opposing parties are increasingly looking futile.
- Resistance is futile.
- futile years after her artistic peak
- He had worked very hard, it would be too cruel if all that industry were futile.Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
- In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- I have hope that Mr. Boutwell will be reasonable enough to see the futility of massive resistance to desegregation.Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- I knew a phone call would be useless, a futile gesture.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- Think of them, ready to do battle, riding out to glory, only to find that none of it matters. That their gesture is futile.Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
- He was an elderly man now, and it would be futile and impudent to correct him.E.M. Forster -- Howards End
- All my efforts for mere survival seemed futile.Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It
- Should Rowan continue this futile resistance, all it holds dear will perish in agony.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- Halfway there, the ocean reached his neck and the futility of the situation finally hit him.Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
- my tongue will not utter the bitter, futile words that rise to my lips, and they fall back into my heart like unshed tears.Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
- I don't let myself question the futility of it.Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
- They say they need only sit inside their defenses while you wear yourselves out in futile attack.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- It was coming to him that perhaps all life as he knew it and vigorously practised it was futile;Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- Unless we win, all other things are futile.Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- What he was doing—indeed, his whole life—now seemed to him completely futile.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- When feeling love exists in us, ennobling,
Each well-weighed word is futile and soul-saddening!Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
futile = pointless because there was no chance of success
futile = effort that is pointless because it will be unproductive or unsuccessful
futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
futile = pointless because they would be unproductive
futility = pointless effort
futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
futile = pointless effort
futile = pointless
futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful