Synonyms for futility
fyuˈtɪl ɪ tifu·til·i·ty

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 6 votes

1. futility

   Synonyms:
   disadvantage, folly, impolicy, inadequacy, inexpediency, inutility, unprofitableness, uselessness, worthlessness

   Antonyms:
   advantage, avail, benefit, expediency, profit, service, serviceableness, use, usefulness, utility

Princeton's WordNet

1. futilitynoun

   uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result

Matched Categories

1. • Uselessness

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1. futilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   triviality, frivolousness

2. futilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   uselessness, worthlessness, vanity

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "futility":

   uselessness, non-requirement, worthlessness

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. futility

   Synonyms:
   See Medical futility
   

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How to use futility in a sentence?

1. Duncan Bew:

   What we can't have is communities having a sense of futility, that violence is inevitable. They deserve better, violence does exhibit similar patterns to contagious disease. We know that. It can be prevented.

2. Eric Hoffer:

   The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

3. Yoni Brook:

   It was still sort of a moment of initial shock, there was an eerie quiet. And there wasn't like a ton of equipment down there. There weren't cranes doing any work yet. It was just individual firefighters and groups of firefighters trying to make sense of a little bit of the futility of what was in front of them.

4. Richard Isaacson:

   The futility analyses showed the studies were most likely to fail.

5. Robert Smith:

   Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things.