futile
adj/ˈfjuː.taɪl/UK/ˈfju.taɪl/US
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French futile, from Latin fūtilis.
- borrowed from futile
Definitions
Incapable of producing results, useless
Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
- But Bathsheba, though she could feel, was not much given to futile dreaming, and her musings under this head were short and entirely confined to the times when Troy’s neglect was more than ordinarily evident.
- He seemed hitherto to have been living by proxy, in a vision, in reflection—to have been an echo, a shadow, a futile attempt;[…]
Insignificant
Insignificant; frivolous.
- Of its history little is recorded, and that little futile.
- This idiosyncrasy is brought out by social pressure, while in a state of nature it might have betrayed itself only in trivial and futile ways, as it does among barbarians.
The neighborhood
- synonymuseless
- synonymbootless
- synonymbarren
- synonymfutile
- synonymfruitless
- synonymgainless
- synonymidle
- synonyminane
- synonymineffectual
- synonyminefficacious
- synonyminutile
- synonymno good
- antonymeffectual
- antonymeffective
- antonymfruitful
- antonymworthwhile
- antonymgainful
- antonymprofitable
- antonymproductive
- antonympurposeful
- antonymuseful
- antonymutilizable
- neighborfutilely
- neighborfutility
- neighborfutilitarian
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for futile. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA