futility
/fjʊˈtɪlɪti/ /fjuːˈtɪlɪti
/noun [mass noun]
Pointlessness or uselessness: the horror and futility of war...
- The narrator then steps in to comment on the pointlessness and futility of life on earth before the credits roll.
- In its place stands the conviction of the futility of life; of the awareness of existence in a dark room.
- In the face of war and mass slaughter, he has proved it retains the ability to shock us with the sheer frivolity of its efforts in futility.
Synonyms
fruitlessness, vanity, pointlessness;
uselessness, worthlessness, ineffectuality, ineffectiveness, inefficacy;
failure, unproductiveness, barrenness, unprofitability, abortiveness;
impotence, hollowness, emptiness, meaningless, forlornness, hopelessness, sterility, valuelessness
archaic bootlessness
Rhymes
- message card
- message-carrier
- messageless
- message pad
- messager
- message rate
- messagerie
- Messageries Maritimes
- message stick
- message switching
- message traffic
- Messalian
- Messalianism
- Messalina, Valeria
- messaline
- Messallina
- messan
- messanter
- Messapian
- Messapic
- Mess Around
- mess beef
- mess box
- mess boy
- messed-up