futility
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- noun
- /fjuːˈtɪləti/
:
futilidad
- The man goes back to work somewhat depressed by the futility of the venture.
- medical futility
- sense of futility
- exercise in futility
But but other than that, this whole primary seems to be an exercise in futility.
- But but other than that, this whole primary seems to be an exercise in futility.
- Some of the best and most eloquent expressions of the absurdity of human experience and the futility of our toiling.
- The helplessness, hopelessness, powerlessness all mean that there is a sense of futility, which is also an element of apathy.
- This attitude towards it can't grasp the dialectic as any sort of progress, and it winds up being stuck in vanity or futility.
- So I think it, I think the to some extent, the futility of it is the point.
- They don't have a There isn't a sense of futility.
- It ceases to be that exercise and detachment and passion which crowns the splendor and futility of a person's life.
- Unger is Unger talks about rationalizations we give for not being moral, and he calls it futility is a rationalization.
- He say, listen, this can movie after we finish it, it can be a paperweight, It can, it can be an exercise of futility.
Examples
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Sometimes she wondered if he would ever see the futility of trying to spite her.
Fiction book (1998) -
Trusting people is the greatest exercise in futility that we have in this world.
Fiction book (2000) -
At a certain point, the futility begins to eat into you.
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I mean, you, you can see the futility of what I'm trying to do here.
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So I was wondering what subject I could take to demonstrate the futility of war.
Academic text (2013) -
Don't you see the futility of your actions?
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Trying to forget anything as intriguing as this would be an exercise in futility.
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Later, in many ways, it mirrors the pervading sense of futility in modern military intervention.
Academic text (2012) -
Someday you'll see the futility in forging a musical career with those idiots.
Fiction book (1999) -
After years of effort without any progress, he finally accepted the futility of trying to change the situation.
Synonyms
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2.7
An activity that takes time but does not help you
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5.3
A feeling that life has no meaning
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4.3
A state in which something does not help or have value
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5.4
Not able to produce the result you want
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3.9
An activity that uses your time but does not help you
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7.6
A feeling that what you do has no purpose or value
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2.9
An action that uses effort but achieves nothing useful
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6.3
A feeling that you have no value or importance
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6.2
A state when something has no purpose or use
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3.8
An action that uses time and energy but gives no useful result
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4.3
A thing like time or money that is completely useless and gives no benefit
Not doing much useful work or making progress
A state of not being useful
A situation when something is not helpful and has no clear purpose
Antonyms
How Futile
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Futility comes from the Latin futilis, which meant 'leaky' or 'that pours out', like a container that cannot hold water. A helpful image is a leaky bucket — trying to fill it is pointless, and that is why futility means something is useless or cannot succeed.