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Definitions for futility
fyuˈtɪl ɪ tifu·til·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. futilitynoun

    uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result

Wiktionary

  1. futilitynoun

    The quality of being futile or useless.

    His taking the bar exam for a third time was pure futility.

  2. futilitynoun

    Something, especially an act, that is futile.

  3. futilitynoun

    Unimportance.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Futilitynoun

    Etymology: futilité, French, from futile.

    This fable does not strike so much at the futility of women, as at the incontinent levity of a prying humour. Roger L'Estrange.

    Trifling futility appears in their signs of the zodiack, and their mutual relations and aspects. Richard Bentley.

ChatGPT

  1. futility

    Futility generally refers to an action or effort that is pointless because it has no chance of success or producing any meaningful results. It can also refer to a useless object or undertaking. It signifies ineffectiveness, uselessness, and fruitlessness.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Futilitynoun

    the quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity

  2. Futilitynoun

    the quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness

  3. Etymology: [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilit.]

Wikidata

  1. Futility

    Futility is Dååth's first self-released album. The cover painting was created by Amber Boardman.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of futility in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of futility in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of futility in a Sentence

  1. William O. Douglas:

    The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

  2. Dwight D Eisenhower:

    I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

  3. Duncan Bew:

    The futility of speaking to families and telling mothers their children have died has spurred a lot of us to think : what more could we have done to have actually stopped it happening ?

  4. George Bernard Shaw:

    Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

  5. Richard Isaacson:

    The futility analyses showed the studies were most likely to fail.

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