Both Uses of
futile
in
The Fall of the House of Usher
- In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence—an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy—an excessive nervous agitation.†
- ...the futility of all attempt at...
*futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
Definition:
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(futile) effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful