All 3 Uses of
futile
in
Childhood's End
- Arguments-protests-all were futile.†
Chpt 2
- It seemed futile to spend a lifetime search-tog fur secrets that the Overlords had probably uncovered ages before.†
Chpt 6 *
- They had been successfully smuggled out again, but a single glance at their smoking interiors had shown the futility of the experiment.†
Chpt 14futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
Definition:
effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful