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adjective

Futile adj.

Talkative; loquacious; tattling. (Obs.) "Talkers and futile persons."

Of no importance; having no useful purpose; useless; vain; worthless; pointless. "Futile theories." "His reasoning... was singularly futile."

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Etymology of 'Futile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... modifying the expressed thoughts of his twenty-first year would have been, as he probably felt, a futile tampering with the work of another man; his literary conscience would have forbidden this, if it had been otherwise possible. But he here proves by his own words what I have already asserted, that the power of detail correction either was, or had ...

— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

... der Geschlechtskrankheiten mit nervoesen Leiden, Stuttgart, 1885. (Hegar, however, went much further than this, and was largely responsible for the surgical treatment of hysteria now generally recognized as worse than futile.) Balls-Headley, "Etiology of Nervous Diseases of the Female Genital Organs," Allbutt and Playfair, System of Gynecology, 1896, ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... disgraceful than that of the Spanish Marriages; none more futile. The course of history mocked its ulterior purposes; its immediate results were wholly to the injury of the House of Orleans. The cordial understanding between France and Great Britain, which had been revived after the differences of 1840, was now ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... be futile for me to attempt detailing the events of that chaotic day. We had all ridden over to Hamilton and spent the day there, with the little town in a turmoil and events seething around us—a seemingly endless stream of reports of what had happened the night before. By daylight ...

— The White Invaders • Raymond King Cummings

... that is to say, the futile encumbrance of the mind, the more will the light of the spirit be darkened and its forces dissipated, making it difficult or impossible not only to reason and act, but even ...

— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori

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