All 3 Uses
futile
in
Uncle Vanya
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- Now I suddenly find myself plunged in this wilderness, condemned to see the same stupid people from morning till night and listen to their futile conversation.†
Act 2 *
- [She gets up] As for me, I am a worthless, futile woman†
Act 2
- I have always been futile; in music, in love, in my husband's house—in a word, in everything.†
Act 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(futile) effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)