What is another word for vain attempt?

Pronunciation: [vˈe͡ɪn ɐtˈɛmpt] (IPA)

A vain attempt is an effort that is destined to fail. It is a desperate and futile struggle that ultimately leads to disappointment. It is important to have alternative ways to describe such a futile effort. Some synonyms that can be used to describe vain attempts are futile, fruitless, unproductive, unsuccessful, ineffectual, inefficacious, and pointless. These synonyms highlight the idea that the attempt has no chance of success and is therefore, a waste of time and effort. It is essential to use these synonyms carefully and selectively when describing such attempts, so as to ensure that the meaning is conveyed accurately and effectively to the reader.

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Famous quotes with Vain attempt

  • With all humility, I think, Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • The inference to be drawn from all this is, that the made-up and dogmatic Christianity of the Constantinian period is simply an offspring of the numerous conflicting sects, half-castes themselves, born of Pagan parents. Each of these could claim representatives converted to the so-called orthodox body of Christians. And, as every newly-born dogma had to be carried out by the majority of votes, every sect colored the main substance with its own hue, till the moment when the emperor enforced this revealed olla-podrida, of which he evidently did not himself understand a word, upon an unwilling world as the religion of Christ. Wearied in the vain attempt to sound this fathomless bog of international speculations, unable to appreciate a religion based on the pure spirituality of an ideal conception, Christendom gave itself up to the adoration of brutal force as represented by a Church backed up by Constantine. Since then, among the thousand rites, dogmas, and ceremonies copied from Paganism, the Church can claim but one invention as thoroughly original with her — namely, the doctrine of eternal damnation, and one custom, that of the anathema.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Related words: vain attempt to do something, vain attempts to reach goal, vain attempts to find meaning, vain attempt of a person to reach a goal, vain attempt at something

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