Both Uses of
futile
in
Great Expectations
- But after I had had my new suit on some half an hour, and had gone through an immensity of posturing with Mr. Pumblechook's very limited dressing-glass, in the futile endeavor to see my legs, it seemed to fit me better.†
Chpt 19 *
- To have struggled with him in the street, or to have exacted any lower recompense from him than his heart's best blood, would have been futile and degrading.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful