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futility

/fyoo-til-i-tee/US // fyuˈtɪl ɪ ti //UK // (fjuːˈtɪlɪtɪ) //

徒劳,徒劳无功,徒劳无益,徒劳的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fu·til·i·ties for 2, 3.

    • : the quality of being futile; ineffectiveness; uselessness.
    • : a trifle or frivolity: the large collection of futilities that clutter our minds.
    • : a futile act or event.

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Examples

  • Despite mounting evidence suggesting the futility of crowdsourcing creativity, the impulse to gather a team to kick around ideas remains an unassailable corporate ritual.

  • For now though, my only consistent exercise with “VZfit” is one of futility.

  • It undermined any notion that this was an exercise in futility.

  • Lately, however, on January afternoons like this one, his excitement was overpowered by a sense of futility and dread.

  • This is a story about pushing for what you know is right, refusing to be thwarted by a sense of futility.

  • If anything can remind us about the futility of war, it is those wrecked, dismembered bodies.

  • This, despite feeling like futility is creeping like vines to tear down your walls of passion and security.

  • But you should not have “acceptance” fed by feelings of futility; your response should be intolerance of intolerance.

  • Again: silence, from apathy or futility, is a powerful ingredient in making bigotry continue.

  • The truth is, telling wedding vendors to only provide goods and services for “biblical” ceremonies is an exercise in futility.

  • That door and that sentry were obstacles which Garnache saw the futility of attempting to overcome without aid.

  • What oceans of futility one discovered, what mountains of pretense—and with what forests of scholarship grown over them!

  • Moreover their reiteration evidences their futility in attaining the objects they had in view.

  • But, probably realising the futility of such a course, he changed his mind, and delivered an ultimatum from the top step.

  • Altiora had been very emphatic and uncharitable upon the futility of the Socialist movement.