Crossword-Solution: FUTILE 6 letters, 73 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Futile v. t. Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
Futile v. t. Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless;
vain; worthless.

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FUTILE anagram FLUTIE

We have 73 clues for the answer “FUTILE”

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unprevailing 1 answer
Pointless, as an effort 1 answer
"Resistance is ___!" 1 answer
Absolutely useless 1 answer
Completely ineffective 1 answer
Doomed to fail 1 answer
Serving no good purpose 1 answer
an otiose undertaking 1 answer
Without effect. 1 answer
Not worth doing? 2 answers
Of no use 3 answers
Not effective 3 answers
Destined to fail 3 answers
To no purpose. 3 answers
In vain 5 answers
Lacking purpose 6 answers
Doddering 8 answers
To no avail 9 answers
AN UNAVAILING ATTEMPT 11 answers
fiddling 13 answers
bootless 14 answers
otiose 16 answers
No-good 19 answers
No good 21 answers
Feckless 23 answers
abortive 26 answers
irreparable 31 answers
Unprofitable. 35 answers
Inefficient 44 answers
incurable 46 answers
meaningless 50 answers
Inconsiderable 52 answers
Unavailing 54 answers
offhandedly 55 answers
Unfruitful 57 answers
Barren 63 answers
Inept 66 answers
Unproductive 66 answers
mutable 68 answers
Helpless 70 answers
Ineffective 70 answers
purposeless 72 answers
in motion 73 answers
Mobile. 73 answers
inconstant 73 answers
Fruitless 73 answers
irrevocable 73 answers
Incompetent 75 answers
Vain 75 answers
frivolous 76 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with FUTILE (5)

Oak suddenly remembered that eight months before this time he had been fighting against fire in the same spot as desperately as he was fighting against water now—and for a futile love of the same woman.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Dimmesdale, on the very day when Hester Prynne first wore her ignominious badge, had begun a course of penance—which he afterwards, in so many futile methods, followed out—by inflicting a hideous torture on himself.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
For, by merely seeming fond of me, and showing in her weak, futile way that she cared for me, the little doll of a creature presently gave my return to the neighbourhood of the White Sphinx almost the feeling of coming home; and I would watch for her tiny figure of white and gold so soon as I came over the hill.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
Some netters put loaded phrases like `KGB', `Uzi', `nuclear materials', `Palestine', `cocaine', and `assassination' in their {sig block}s in a (probably futile) attempt to confuse and overload the creature.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
She did not attempt to delude herself with any vain and futile hopes; the safety of her brother Armand was to have been conditional on the imminent capture of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Quotes with FUTILE (3)

When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; The Earth is a sphere; it doesn’t have an edge; so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe, and …
Stephen Hawking
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.
Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism Is a Humanism
Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of all our emotions combined cannot counteract those laws. It can only hate them. The eternal belief of lovers and poets in the power of love which is more enduring that death, the finis vitae sed non amoris that has pursued us through the centuries is a lie. But this lie is not ridiculous, it's simply futile. To be a clock on the other hand, measuring the passage o…
Stanislaw Lem Solaris
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