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

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell:

   It wouldn't produce the result that Sen. Cruz and I would both like to produce, so therefore, it would be an exercise in futility.

2. George Bernard Shaw:

   Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

5. 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.