Futile

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  • adjective. Having no useful result; ineffectual.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Frivolous; merely loquacious.
  • Of no effect; answering no valuable purpose; useless; ineffective; trifling: as, futile efforts; futile prattle.
  • Synonyms Trivial, frivolous, unimportant, useless, bootless, unavailing, profitless, vain, idle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
  • adjective. Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. producing no result or effect
  • adjective. unproductive of success
    • Word Usage
    "It will cost millions in marketing and promotion, or what I call a futile attempt and waste of shareholder equity."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    effective  effectual  
    Equivalent
    unproductive  useless  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    brutal  butyl  tootle  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    desperate  feeble  frantic  frivolous  fruitless  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abortive  absurd  airy  apish  asinine  
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