Definitions
unproductive of success
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French futile, from Latin fūtilis.
Used in a sentence
“But Bathsheba, though she could feel, was not much given to futile dreaming, and her musings under this head were short and entirely confined to the times when Troy’s neglect was more than ordinarily evident.”
“He seemed hitherto to have been living by proxy, in a vision, in reflection—to have been an echo, a shadow, a futile attempt;[…]”
“He wished he had not been saddled with Whippham's rather futile son as his chaplain.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Unable to succeed”6 letters
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