Synonyms:
futility
Meaning: uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
Usage examples
Such futility, she reflected, self-scorning, was of a piece with her life.
Their efforts had been confined to low-resistance burners of large radiating surface for their lamps, but he realized the utter futility of such devices.
Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified.
The occasion was to serve as an object-lesson to all other slaves of the danger and futility of attempted escape, and the fatal consequences of taking the life of a superior being, and so I imagine that Sagoths felt amply justified in making the entire proceeding as uncomfortable and painful to us as possible.