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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1. Duncan Bew:

   The futility of speaking to families and telling mothers their children have died has spurred a lot of us to think : what more could we have done to have actually stopped it happening ?

2. 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.

3. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:

   The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

4. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

   Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

5. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   its futile looking for -motives- when we already know the reasons as to why certain things happen. An exercise in futility will not a safe solution make. Most things are casually related. If a=b, and b=c, then a=c.