What is another word for futile?
729 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ fjˈuːta͡ɪl], [ fjˈuːtaɪl], [ f_j_ˈuː_t_aɪ_l]
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Similar words for futile:
- abortive (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- barren (adjective)
- desperate (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- failing (adjective)
- feckless (adjective)
- forlorn (adjective)
- fruitless (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- hopeless, pointless (adjective)
- idle (adjective)
- impossible (adjective)
- inane (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- inessential (adjective)
- inutile (adjective)
- meaningless (adjective)
- no-account (adjective)
- no-good (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- otiose (adjective)
- pointless (adjective)
- sterile (adjective)
- stupid (adjective)
- thankless (adjective)
- thick-witted (adjective)
- unattainable (adjective)
- uncalled-for (adjective)
- uncreative (adjective)
- unessential (adjective)
- unnecessary (adjective)
- unneeded (adjective)
- unproductive (adjective)
- unprofitable (adjective)
- unrealizable (adjective)
- unrequired (adjective)
- unsuccessful (adjective)
- unusable (adjective)
- unworkable (adjective)
- useless (adjective)
- bootless (noun)
- frivolous (noun)
- futile (noun)
- other synonyms
- discouraging
- luckless
- profitless
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Futile:
adj.
• abortive (adjective)- mis carried,
- most miscarried,
- more miscarried,
- mis-carried,
- un availing,
- un-availing,
- failed,
- more failed,
- most failed.
- more unrewarding,
- most profitless,
- most unrewarding,
- un inspiring,
- profitless,
- more uninspiring,
- un-inspiring,
- more profitless,
- un-rewarding,
- un rewarding,
- most uninspiring.
- in consolable,
- more irretrievable,
- most no-way,
- more nochance,
- at end one's rope,
- most goner,
- most no win,
- back to wall,
- more irrecoverable,
- most no way,
- in soup,
- more no way,
- back wall,
- more no-win,
- most desponding,
- more sunk,
- up creek,
- most nochance,
- running out time,
- in-consolable,
- no win,
- most no-win,
- most irretrievable,
- more no-way,
- most no-chance,
- more no win,
- more goner,
- at end ones rope,
- at end of ones rope,
- more desponding,
- at end rope,
- more no-chance,
- more no chance,
- nowin,
- at end of one rope,
- cant win,
- more noway,
- most sunk,
- in toilet,
- most irrecoverable,
- most noway,
- back the wall,
- most nowin,
- most no chance,
- at end one rope,
- no-chance,
- nochance,
- more nowin.
- in expressive,
- in sincerest,
- in-expressive,
- un substantial,
- in-sincerest,
- in-sipid,
- in-sincere,
- de void,
- insincere,
- de-void,
- un intelligent,
- in-sincerer,
- in sipid,
- in sincerer,
- un-satisfactory,
- in sincere,
- un-intelligent,
- dis honest,
- un-real,
- dis-honest,
- un-substantial,
- trivial,
- un satisfactory,
- un real.
- de pressed,
- forgotten,
- un happiest,
- de-stroyed,
- be-reft,
- in the dumps,
- down out,
- de solate,
- de stroyed,
- un happier,
- helpless,
- un happy,
- de-solate,
- in dumps,
- un-happy,
- be reft,
- de-pressed.
- most gainless,
- more gainless,
- un prolific,
- un fruitful,
- in-fertile,
- spinning one wheels,
- more unprolific,
- spinning ones wheels,
- wild goose chase,
- spinning wheels,
- in fertile,
- un-prolific,
- un available,
- most unprolific,
- un-available,
- un-fruitful.
- insufficient,
- unreal,
- impractical,
- on a treadmill,
- sterile,
- delusive,
- unimportant,
- save one's breath,
- exhausted,
- valueless,
- no dice,
- unsubstantial,
- to no purpose,
- out the window,
- impracticable,
- trifling,
- nugatory,
- ineffective,
- hollow,
- unsatisfactory,
- Resultless,
- unneeded.
- in significant,
- un helpful,
- in-significant,
- more unhelpful,
- idler,
- most unhelpful,
- un-helpful,
- irrelevant.
- unattainable,
- infeasible,
- hundred-to-one,
- unworkable,
- unachievable,
- contrary to reason,
- Inexecutable,
- uncorrectable,
- unobtainable,
- hardly possible,
- irrealizable,
- not a prayer,
- unrecoverable,
- NOGO,
- out of question,
- no-go,
- unrealizable.
- more slack spined,
- slackspined,
- more slack-spined,
- more slackspined,
- most slackspined,
- most slack-spined,
- in-effective,
- most emasculate,
- most slack spined,
- in effective,
- slack-spined,
- slack spined,
- more emasculate.
- in efficient,
- un-abler,
- un-ablest,
- de-feasible,
- more anticlimactic,
- un abler,
- anti-climactic,
- in operative,
- in-decisive,
- anti climactic,
- in-operative,
- more neutralized,
- in-adequate,
- most neutralized,
- in adequate,
- in vertebrate,
- un ablest,
- more invertebrate,
- in decisive,
- in-efficient,
- most forceless,
- more defeasible,
- de feasible,
- most anticlimactic,
- most defeasible,
- invertebrate,
- null void,
- null and void,
- more forceless,
- in-vertebrate,
- more ineffective,
- most invertebrate.
- pointless,
- sanitized,
- loafing,
- in vicious circle,
- fruitless,
- pasteurized,
- irrecoverable,
- around in circles,
- dead duck,
- unrewarding,
- unprolific,
- unhelpful,
- Gainless,
- Thick-headed,
- uninventive,
- no-good,
- no-way,
- not effective,
- uninspiring,
- inefficacious,
- abortive,
- up against it,
- forlorn,
- running out of time,
- not serious,
- at end of one's rope,
- no way,
- in vain,
- stupid,
- irretrievable,
- thick-witted,
- idle,
- unrecognized,
- inane,
- unprofitable,
- septic,
- Noway,
- in the toilet,
- no effect,
- forceless,
- uncreative,
- back to the wall,
- worthless,
- not pertinent,
- unnecessary,
- no-account,
- halfwitted,
- of no avail,
- Infecund,
- nongermane,
- up the creek,
- germ-free,
- impossible,
- needle in haystack,
- unproductive,
- not worth it,
- no go,
- no avail,
- beside point,
- can't win,
- at end of rope,
- feckless,
- no-win,
- on treadmill,
- non-germane,
- uninfected,
- no chance,
- germfree,
- spinning one's wheels,
- to no effect,
- anticlimactic,
- in the soup,
- goner,
- defeasible,
- to no avail,
- useless,
- down and out.
- more nongermane,
- re-mote,
- most nongermane,
- needle haystack,
- around circles,
- non germane,
- un interesting,
- going nowhere.
- in fecund,
- most germ-free,
- un-infected,
- most germfree,
- more septic,
- more infecund,
- de-contaminated,
- un infected,
- more decontaminated,
- most disinfected,
- more germ free,
- dis infected,
- germ free,
- in-fecund,
- de contaminated,
- more germfree,
- more germ-free,
- dis-infected,
- most germ free,
- most infecund,
- most uninfected,
- more uninfected,
- anti septic,
- de sert,
- most pasteurized,
- more pasteurized,
- most decontaminated,
- wastest,
- anti-septic,
- without issue,
- de-sert,
- more disinfected,
- most septic.
- half witted,
- in discreet,
- illadvised,
- most thick headed,
- dummiest,
- un-thinking,
- thick headed,
- un thinking,
- in sensate,
- most loser,
- most thick-headed,
- in-discreet,
- more loser,
- in-sensate,
- out lunch,
- dummier,
- more thick-headed,
- more thick headed.
- dis-tasteful,
- more unreturned,
- un-requited,
- ungrateful,
- un-returned,
- most unrecognized,
- un-recognized,
- un recognized,
- un pleasant,
- dis-agreeable,
- un grateful,
- most unreturned,
- un requited,
- unreturned,
- un-pleasant,
- dis agreeable,
- dis tasteful,
- more unrecognized,
- un-grateful,
- un returned.
n.
• bootless (noun) • frivolous (noun) • futile (noun)Other synonyms:
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•
- defunct,
- flabby,
- facile,
- small-time,
- defective,
- outworn,
- uninformative,
- Overworked,
- flaccid,
- nonoperational,
- spent,
- inefficient,
- moribund,
- infertile,
- toothless,
- bum,
- muted,
- muddled.
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•
- empty,
- bush-league,
- inoperable,
- losing,
- unproven,
- porous,
- cumbersome,
- paper,
- paralyzed,
- anemic,
- unresponsive,
- unreliable,
- dysfunctional.
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•
- old.
-
•
- barren.
-
•
- dead.
- counterproductive,
- dispensable,
- apish,
- stillborn,
- shallow,
- pyrrhic,
- incompetent,
- self-conceited,
- weakly,
- Fatuitous,
- awfully,
- impart,
- calamitously,
- nutty,
- inept,
- uselessness,
- inoperative,
- ill-considered,
- wet,
- inutile,
- futilely,
- foolheaded,
- Befooled,
- swollen,
- superfluous,
- insignificant,
- unfruitful,
- unseemly,
- inessential,
- inexpedient,
- aimless,
- wasted,
- brainless,
- invalid,
- fruitlessness,
- out of place,
- lame,
- unavailable,
- unrequired,
- powerless,
- fond,
- incompetently,
- loony,
- fiddling,
- sappy,
- impolitic,
- costly,
- redundant,
- fuddled,
- conceited,
- unessential,
- seriously,
- naughtily,
- unwise,
- minor,
- buffoonish,
- Daffy,
- tattling,
- frothy,
- catchpenny,
- infatuated,
- wickedly,
- faintly,
- baseless,
- wacky,
- reveal,
- slender,
- fool,
- insane,
- slight,
- unfit,
- ill-advised,
- unbefitting,
- goofy,
- slothful,
- absurd,
- unproductively,
- nonsensical,
- Unpractical,
- light,
- discover,
- sentimental,
- unfitting,
- badly,
- failing,
- untimely,
- wasteful,
- null,
- fatuous,
- not binding,
- immature,
- feebly,
- uneffective,
- inefficiently,
- incongruous,
- vainly,
- failure,
- ditzy,
- puerile,
- flaky,
- trite,
- divulge,
- moronic,
- egotistical,
- inconstant,
- of no effect,
- uncalled-for,
- fruitlessly,
- poorly,
- use,
- malapropos,
- screwy,
- airy,
- Successless,
- ill-suited,
- unsuccessfully,
- maudlin,
- unfertile,
- declare,
- Frailly,
- unacknowledged,
- effete,
- unnecessarily,
- severely,
- disclose,
- ineffectively,
- idiotic,
- improper,
- impotent,
- kooky,
- mad,
- wrongly,
- etiolated,
- ineffectually,
- Unmeet,
- no purpose,
- desperately,
- daft,
- despairingly,
- paltry,
- inconsiderable,
- dumb,
- frivolous,
- idly,
- besotted,
- Inservient,
- void,
- flimsy,
- unrequited,
- futility,
- Fribble,
- witless,
- verbalize,
- preposterous,
- jingle,
- uselessly,
- senseless,
- ridiculous,
- unable,
- Fribbling,
- unenforceable,
- unhappy,
- faineant,
- unfortunate,
- manque,
- unappreciated,
- pointlessly,
- foredoomed,
- egotistic,
- doggerel,
- windy,
- lazy,
- unsturdy,
- Stickit,
- inapt,
- foolish,
- doting,
- dazed,
- of no account,
- cockeyed,
- nonviable,
- birdbrained,
- time-wasting,
- inopportune,
- inadvisable,
- footling,
- thankless,
- purposeless,
- vapid,
- crazy,
- gaga,
- sisyphean,
- needlessly,
- Gulled,
- characterless,
- speak,
- vacuous,
- Miscarried,
- inappropriate,
- infelicitous,
- asinine,
- credulous,
- dystopian,
- hopelessly,
- imbecile,
- indolent,
- unpersuasive,
- ill timed,
- silly,
- unremunerative,
- unskillful,
- thoughtless,
- unseasonable,
- beguiled,
- batty,
- disastrously,
- doomed,
- Miscarrying,
- undesirable,
- wrong,
- dizzy,
- jangle,
- bad,
- superficial.
How to use "Futile" in context?
Futile is a word that defines something that cannot be done or is not useful. It can be used to describe something or someone that is not helpful or does not accomplish anything. My definition of futile is a person or thing that does not serve a purpose. The act of doing something that is futile can be frustrating. For example, if you are trying to fix something that is not broken, you might find the experience frustrating. The act of futile can also be depressing if it is happening in an undesirable situation. For example, if you are in a situation where you are being attacked and you cannot defend yourself, the experience can be depressing.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
fruitless, meaningless, pointless, useless, vain.
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Independent
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Adjective
abortive, absurd, barren, counterproductive, elusive, feasible, foolish, helpless, hollow, hopeless, idle, illusory, inappropriate, inconclusive, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficient, irrelevant, meaningful, needless, redundant, senseless, unusable, useful, wasteful, worthwhile.
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Other Related
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Adjective
empty, frivolous, infertile, nonsensical, sterile, superfluous, trivial, unhelpful, unnecessary, unproductive, unsuccessful, worthless.
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