Crossword-Solution: FUTILE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Futile | v. t. | Talkative; loquacious; tattling. |
| Futile | v. t. | Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| FUTILE | anagram | FLUTIE |
We have 73 clues for the answer “FUTILE”
| Clue | Answers |
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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
eruption
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1966–2024).