Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
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.
Insignificant; frivolous.
Of its history little is recorded, and that little futile.
From Middle French futile, from Latin fūtilis.
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