All 6 Uses of
futile
in
Arrowsmith
- In college he had felt that prosody and Latin Composition were futile, and he had looked forward to the study of medicine as illumination.†
Chpt 3 *
- But in this young man there was none of the heaviness of workers dragged out of bed at dawn for another gray and futile day of labor.†
Chpt 10
- Time bent back, progress was annihilated, and he was mazed with futility.†
Chpt 24futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
- Thus with Sondelius, though for Martin there were as yet but embarrassment and futility and the fear of fear.†
Chpt 33
- He went to the Ice House; he had a drink with a frightened clerk from Derbyshire; he regained the picture of Gottlieb's sunken, demanding eyes; and he swore that he would not yield to a compassion which in the end would make all compassion futile.†
Chpt 34
- I wish I could make you see just how weak and futile that is.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful