futile
Adjective Satellite
- producing no result or effect
- "a futile effort"
- unproductive of success
- "futile years after her artistic peak"
Adj
- Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
- Insignificant; frivolous.
Adjective
- Producing no useful result; pointless or ineffectual.
Examples
- All his attempts to block his opponent’s bingo seemed futile, they always found a way.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French futile, from Latin fūtilis.
Synonyms
bootless, fruitless, ineffectual, otiose, sleeveless, unavailing, vain, futile, gainless, idle, inane, inefficacious, inutile, pointless, profitless, purposeless, unprofitable, unuseful, unutilizable, useless, void
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
futile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfutile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
futile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary