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.
adj. 1. producing no result or effect 2. unproductive of success. 
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91 Exedore ceased his futile efforts to steady his work and with some difficulty swiveled to regard the strobing databanks of the Awareness, data scrolls and cards tattooing to the floor at his feet.
92 He groaned as he saw that his hopes were futile.
93 Any attempt to distort or even deny resolution 2758 ( XXVI ) is futile.
94 After months of futile labor , the scientist suddenly had a brainstorm and solved the problem.
95 She regarded him as her doctor of medicine, who would at least present some futile drugs.
96 The EPI's Senior International Economist Robert Scott, author of the job report, shrugs off critics who say his call for a sharp appreciation of the Chinese currency is futile.
97 Paclobutrazol can retard seedling futile growth more strongly under normal density than under high density.
98 The forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.
99 SOM say they could have coaxed the building to produce more energy but it would have been futile because there's no facility in Guangzhou to feed self-generated power back into the grid.
100 Trying to draw level with Asia in chip making would be futile.
101 Amid the turmoil, it might seem futile to sketch out the future banking landscape.
102 Without microscopes and other modern equipment, attempts to teach science were futile.
103 Your mind knows that continuing to work hard is likely to be futile and won't solve the real problem of incongruence.
104 According to them, future proliferation is inevitable; stopping it is futile.
105 He shifted his hams - that futile and reflexive gesture of hospitality - and she sat down.
106 Applying SEO to a poorly designed and dysfunctional web site is futile.
107 Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know(Sentencedict.com ), so that they will be put to shame.
108 Through this jumble of futile activities came and went a strange throng of hangers - on.
109 He died for Germany in the gigantic and futile operation called Citadel.
110 It is always futile to try to hold back the progress of history.
111 He was limping rather badly and fagged when he finished the futile exploration of his domain.