FUTILE

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Talkative; loquacious; tattling. [Obs.] Talkers and futile persons. Bacon.

2.
a.

Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless. "Futile theories." I. Taylor. His reasoning . . . was singularly futile. Macaulay.

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