futileadjective
uk/ˈfjuː.taɪl/us/ˈfjuː.t̬əl/(of actions) having no effect or achieving nothing:
Attempts to get supplies to the region are futile because troops will not allow the aid convoy to enter the city.
It's completely futile trying to reason with him - he just won't listen.
All my attempts to cheer her up proved futile.
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- ornamental
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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Unsuccessful (people and things)
futility
noun [ U ] uk/fjuːˈtɪl.ə.ti/us/fjuːˈtɪl.ə.t̬i/
"What's his latest book about?" "Oh, the usual - the transience of love and the futility of life."