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futility
Synonyms and Antonyms of futility
- The two engaged in a long discussion on the futility of war.
- He felt saddened by the apparent futility of his efforts to console her.
ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacy
abortiveness, barrenness, bootlessness, emptiness, fruitlessness, otioseness, unavailingness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, vanity
deficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency
inaneness, meaninglessness, pointlessness, senselessness
disappointment, letdown, setback
collapse, crash, cropper, defeat, failure, fizzle, nonachievement, nonsuccess
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