futile

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:49:01

Fu"tile ]

Talkative; loquacious; tattling.

[Obs.]

Talkers and futile persons.
Bacon.

Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.

"Futile theories."

I. Taylor.

His reasoning . . . was singularly futile.
Macaulay.

futility	Like a cat filled with molten bronze and dropped out of a biplane	Verbal Diarrhea	Everywhere Is Kitten Trouble
in vain	nihilism	Futilely	Making sense of international ethics, Part II
futilitarian	Die Geschichte Einer Mutter	invisible	Resistance is futile
Panzerschreck	lipstick on a pig	Rollerball	For Adam
just-world bias	NSA line eater	Trapped in CompUSA	Demonyms of Australia
The bored who complain	whiskey	George W. Bush's 2005 State of the Union Address	It's Hard to be Humble

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