having no purpose because there is no chance of success
SYNPOINTLESS:
a futile attempt / exercise / gesture * Their efforts to revive him were futile. * It would be futile to protest. * My appeal proved futile.
futility noun [U]:
a sense of futility * the futility of war
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for futile is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is futile a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, futile is tagged as adjective.
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