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Definition

effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful

futile = pointless because it cannot produce anything useful

futile = pointless

futile = pointless because it could not produce anything useful

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

futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful

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

futility = pointlessness (uselessness)

I knew a phone call would be useless, a futile gesture.
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death

futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful

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

futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful

He was an elderly man now, and it would be futile and impudent to correct him.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End

futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful

All my efforts for mere survival seemed futile.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

futile = pointless because there was no chance of success

Should Rowan continue this futile resistance, all it holds dear will perish in agony.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege

futile = effort that is pointless because it will be unproductive or unsuccessful

Halfway there, the ocean reached his neck and the futility of the situation finally hit him.
Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle

futility = pointlessness (uselessness)

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

futile = pointless because they would be unproductive

futility = pointless effort

They say they need only sit inside their defenses while you wear yourselves out in futile attack.
Frank Herbert -- Dune

futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful

It was coming to him that perhaps all life as he knew it and vigorously practised it was futile;
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt

futile = pointless effort

Unless we win, all other things are futile.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls

futile = pointless

What he was doing—indeed, his whole life—now seemed to him completely futile.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove

futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful

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

He made a futile rush at White Fang, clipping the empty air with an outraged snap.
Jack London -- White Fang

futile = effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful

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