All 3 Uses of
futile
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Futility.†
Chpt 2futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
- Ugly and futile: lean neck and thick hair and a stain of ink, a snail's bed.†
Chpt 2 *
- the fallaciously inferred debility of the female: the muscularity of the male: the variations of ethical codes: the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving no alteration of sense of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of seminators by generation: the continual production of semen by distillation: the futility of triumph or protest or vindi†
Chpt 17futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
Definition:
effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful