Futility synonyms
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The quality of being useless
The quality of being fruitless
The condition of being ineffective
Emptiness.
labor in vain
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purposelessness
The state of being purposeless.
The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
The state or quality of being insubstantial.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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(Uncountable) The characteristic of being untrue.
The definition of an illusion is an idea or something you can see that isn’t real.
A structure, such as a pavilion in a garden, that is chiefly decorative rather than practical in purpose.
want of substance
The property of lack of importance.
carrying water in a sieve
Any search, pursuit, or endeavor regarded as being futile
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sowing the sand
labor of Sisyphus
running around in circles
beating the air
carrying coals to Newcastle
importance (antonym)
Personal status; standing:
fruitfulness (antonym)
The state or quality of being fruitful; productiveness; fertility; fecundity; exuberant abundance.
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significance (antonym)
A meaning that is expressed or implied:
The state or condition of being unavailing; fruitlessness.
thrive (related)
The condition or quality of being useless or ineffective
used (related)
The condition or quality of being useless or ineffective
inopportuneness
The quality of being inopportune.
unseasonableness
The quality of being unseasonable.
absurdity (related)
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awfulness (related)
banality (related)
enormity (related)
inevitability (related)
irrationality (related)
The state or quality of being hollow
The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
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A frivolous act or thing
The state of being idle; inactivity.
lost trouble
spinning one's wheels
Find another word for futility. In this page you can discover 48 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for futility, like: uselessness, fruitlessness, ineffectiveness, vanity, hopelessness, unprofitableness, labor in vain, falseness, purposelessness, pointlessness and meaninglessness.