Futility
[fjʊ'tɪlɪtɪ;fjuː'tɪlɪtɪ] or [fjʊ'tɪləti]
Definition
(noun.) uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result.
Edited by Elena--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
(n.) The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
Typed by Arlene
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Triviality, frivolousness.[2]. Uselessness, worthlessness, vanity.
Checked by Archie
Examples
- The whole place seemed to resound about them with a noise of hollow, empty futility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She clung to the note bravely, though its futility was now plain to her in the glare of his miserable eyes. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- We have just pointed out the futility of trying to establish the aim of education--some one final aim which subordinates all others to itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All I want to say is that my daughter'--he tailed off into silence, overcome by futility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- All sorts of men must have been impressed by the futility of the excommunications and interdicts that were levelled at Frederick. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is this not a contributing factor to the futility and opacity of our political thinking? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Thus the cycle of futility is completed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Thousands of people who hate the waste and futility of war as much as any of the orators of that evening were filled with an unholy glee. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Their efforts had been confined to low-resistance burners of large radiating surface for their lamps, but he realized the utter futility of such devices. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There it was, it did not alter, and words were futilities. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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