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单词 futile
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futile

Critics say it is a futile money-saving exercise which endangers patients.The bad news is life is futile and we're all going to die.Except it would be a long and futile search.The tactic will prove as futile now as it did before.Sometimes it worked but it was usually futile.Unless financial education is taught by properly trained and qualified teachers it will be a futile exercise.Trying to encourage home ownership by subsidising buyers is a futile exercise.That is not to say this was a totally futile exercise.Signing onto just any training course may prove to be a futile exercise.Night after night they argued patiently in futile attempts to make him see the error of his ways.Dom rubbed his hand across his lips in a futile attempt to clean the bad taste from his mouth.It was always a futile exercise.Yet searching for traces of originality in the band's set proved a futile task.For decades they have been telling them that resistance to the Anglo-Saxon way of life is futile.The first is to make a futile attempt to plug into the island's glamorous past.These are terrifying threats, and diplomatic efforts to defuse them have so far proved futile.The snapshot narratives in the literature of disenchantment typically pivot on ironic incidents in which action is proved futile and courage a waste.And meanwhile her poor old Dad is left outside the bedroom door making futile attempts to talk to her.Their efforts have proved futile.Not because they want to die, but because death renders life so futile and meaningless they decide to check out of it.I withdrew my offer of a game, as my futile attempts on court could cost me the prize.If we see life as futile, we'll have a good laugh about it.If life is futile, well, why not?The move had proved 'completely futile'.

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futile

British English: futile ADJECTIVE
If you say that something is futile, you mean there is no point in doing it, usually because it has no chance of succeeding.
He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow.
  • American English: futile
  • Brazilian Portuguese: fútil
  • Chinese: > 无谓的常因无成功的可能而
  • European Spanish: vano
  • French: futile
  • German: vergeblich
  • Italian: futile
  • Japanese: 無益な
  • Korean: 부질없는
  • European Portuguese: fútil
  • Latin American Spanish: vano

Chinese translation of 'futile'

futile

(ˈfjuːtaɪl)

adj

  1. [attempt, gesture, search] 无(無)效的 (wúxiào de)
(adjective) 
Definition
useless or having no chance of success
a futile attempt to ward off the blow
Synonyms
useless
He realised that their money was useless in this country.
vain
They worked all night in a vain attempt to finish on schedule.
unsuccessful
a second unsuccessful operation on his knee
pointless
Violence is always pointless.
empty
Without my friends my life would be lonely and empty.
hollow
Any threat to bring in the police is a hollow one.
in vain
All her complaints were in vain.
worthless
Training is worthless unless there is proof that it works.
barren
He also wants to use water to irrigate barren desert land.
sterile
Too much time has been wasted in sterile debate.
fruitless
It was a fruitless search.
forlorn
a forlorn effort to keep from losing my mind
unproductive
They are aware much of their time and effort is unproductive.
abortive
an abortive attempt to prevent him from taking office
to no avail
ineffectual
the well-meaning but ineffectual jobs programs of the past
unprofitable
an endless, unprofitable argument
valueless
I felt my existence was totally valueless.
unavailing
a brave but unavailing fight against a terminal illness
otiose
profitless
a singularly profitless line of thought
nugatory
The Stamp Act of 1765 was rendered nugatory by colonial resistance.
without rhyme or reason
bootless
Opposites
successful
,
effective
,
useful
,
valuable
,
profitable
,
worthwhile
,
constructive
,
fruitful
,
purposeful
(adjective) 
Definition
foolish and of no value
She doesn't want to comment. It's too futile.
Synonyms
trivial
I don't like to visit the doctor just for something trivial.
pointless
trifling
The guests had each paid £250, no trifling sum.
unimportant
It was an unimportant job, and paid very little.
Opposites
important
,
significant

Additional synonyms

in the sense of abortive
Definition
failing to achieve its purpose
an abortive attempt to prevent him from taking office
Synonyms
failed,
failing,
useless,
vain,
unsuccessful,
idle,
ineffective,
futile,
fruitless,
unproductive,
ineffectual,
miscarried,
unavailing,
bootless
in the sense of barren
Definition
unable to support the growth of crops, fruit, etc.
He also wants to use water to irrigate barren desert land.
Synonyms
unproductive,
dry,
useless,
sterile,
fruitless,
arid,
unprofitable,
unfruitful,
unprolific
in the sense of bootless
Definition
of little or no use
Synonyms
useless,
vain,
unsuccessful,
ineffective,
futile,
fruitless,
to no avail,
unavailing,
profitless

Synonyms of 'futile'

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