futility
1Futility — may refer to:*Resistance is futile, a term in science fiction *Futile medical care, a medical belief *Futile, an EP album by Porcupine Tree * Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan , an 1898 novel *The Advance Directives Act, a Texan health care law …
2Futility — Fu til i*ty, n. [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilit[ e].] 1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. [1913… …
3futility — index impossibility Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
4futility — 1620s, from Fr. futilité or directly from L. futilitatem (nom. futilitas) worthlessness, from futilis (see FUTILE (Cf. futile)). Hence, jocular futilitarian (1827) …
5futility — [n] uselessness emptiness, frivolousness, fruitlessness, hollowness, idleness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, meaninglessness, pointlessness, senselessness, unprofitableness, worthlessness; concept 560 …
6futility — [fyo͞o til′ə tē] n. pl. futilities 1. the quality of being futile 2. a futile act, thing, etc …
7futility — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ utter ▪ ultimate VERB + FUTILITY ▪ know, realize, recognize, see ▪ …
8Futility — Se ha sugerido que este artículo o sección sea fusionado con Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan (discusión). Una vez que hayas realizado la fusión de artículos, pide la fusión de historiales aquí. Todo comienza con la novela llamada Futility… …
9futility — n. an exercise in futility * * * [fjuː tɪlɪtɪ] an exercise in futility …
10futility — fu|til|i|ty [ fju tıləti ] noun uncount a lack of purpose, importance, or effectiveness: His efforts were accompanied by a sense of futility and doubt. an exercise in futility a useless action that cannot succeed …
