Synonym: ineffective, unsuccessful, useless, vain. Antonym: profitable, useful. Similar words: tile, utility, utilize, hostile, mutilate, volatile, refute, in future. Meaning: ['fjuːtl / -taɪl] adj. 1. producing no result or effect 2. unproductive of success.
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61 A number of women were quite bitter about their futile attempts to get clergy to help.
62 Why should the Tory rebels vote for a wrecking amendment which has been rendered futile?
63 His decision to stop drinking, made two days ago, now seemed futile, a pathetic old man's gesture.
64 There is a clear realisation that attempting to export western trade unionism to the East would be futile.
65 These are the remains of unfortunate wretches driven to kill themselves in a futile attempt to escape the torments of the Castle.
66 Kevin made one last futile attempt to persuade Sandra to go with him, then left.
67 Trained to futility by now, we will be ready to engage in further enterprises of a futile nature.
68 The subversion attempts proved predictably futile.
69 She turned on the radio with a futile gesture.
70 He concluded that resistance was futile.
71 Any added word would have been commonplace and futile.
72 The subversion attempt proved predictably futile.
73 That futile young man does nothing but waste money.
74 Brothers,[www.Sentencedict.com] let us squander our morning in futile songs.
75 He is a futile sort of person.
76 Make us guffaw at thy futile follies.
77 A hard - determinist, therefore(sentencedict.com), believes that human effort is not futile.
78 The US House of Representatives has no justification for making irresponsible comments on the Article 23 legislation. It is a futile attempt.
79 It is futile to develop perverted knowledge that increases envy and the other five poisons.
80 The word image was futile unless it conveyed essential meaning about life.
81 In the case of high inflation cannot be effectively inhibits, rely on the Government's administrative intervention price will undoubtedly be futile.
82 Any attempt to distort or een deny resolution 2758 ( XXI ) is futile.
83 Any unrealistic objective is not worth pursuing sedulously since it is doomed to a futile project.
84 From the scrofulous hobos of Samuel Beckett to Antonioni's tired-blooded aristocrats, the anti-heroes of modern art endlessly suggest that waiting for God is futile, since life is without meaning.
85 It was a strange, weird, interesting and yet futile battle of wits.
86 His ambitions had dissolved amid repeated and futile efforts to pass his physical-training test.
87 This caused the utmost anxiety and rendered all concentration futile.
88 It is futile to practice a Mahayana teaching that lacks the path of compassion.
89 The most futile of the expeditions was the Children's Crusade, which took place in 1212.
90 Several futile attempts to terrorize the Poseidans were attempted by the Aryans, and each was quelled.