Futility Synonyms and Antonyms

fyo͝o-tĭlĭ-tē
The condition or quality of being useless or ineffective
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. uselessness
  2. fruitlessness
  3. bootlessness
  4. unprofitableness
  5. vanity
  6. vainness
  7. pointlessness
  8. ineffectiveness
  9. falseness
  10. hollowness
  11. triviality
  12. hopelessness
  13. frivolity
  14. idleness
  15. emptiness
  16. worthlessness
  17. labor in vain
  18. lost trouble
  19. purposelessness
  20. unavailingness
  21. meaninglessness
  22. insubstantiality
  23. falsity
  24. illusion
  25. folly
  26. want of substance
  27. unimportance
  28. carrying water in a sieve
  29. wild-goose-chase
  30. sowing the sand
  31. labor of Sisyphus
  32. running around in circles
  33. beating the air
  34. spinning one's wheels
  35. carrying coals to Newcastle
  36. inopportuneness
  37. unseasonableness
Antonyms:
  1. importance
  2. fruitfulness
  3. significance

Words Related to Futility

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Futility Sentence Examples

  • She didn't want to face the futility of her situation, not yet!

  • Dean asked the question before he remembered futility of such a query.

  • He did not live to see the futility of such bulwarks.

  • So too, in his English in Ireland (1872-1874), which was written to show the futility of attempts to conciliate the Irish, he aggravates all that can be said against the Irish, touches too lightly on English atrocities,and writes unjustly of the influence of Roman Catholicism.

  • We must now all accept the utter futility of trying to shut our borders to problems abroad.

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