An action that accomplishes nothing, and only serves to frustrate or anger the person partaking in it. Examples:
Trying to put out a raging fire with a garden hose.
Attempting to fall asleep when your next door neighbor is playing Dubstep music loud enough to make the walls vibrate.
Trying to convince the police officer who pulled you over that you are not drunk, even though you must lean against your car to keep from falling over.
Trying to teach some people rules of behavior is an exercise in futility .
Resistance is futile! His heroic effort turned out to be futile, after all.
Opposite of FutilityAccording to the website Answers.com, the word futility has several meanings: The quality of having no useful result; uselessness.Lack of importance or purpose; frivolousness.A futile act.Antonyms would therefore include fruitfulness and usefulness.In the context of futility as pointlessness or impossibility, antonyms of the same form might include feasibility, possibility, or viability.
The word 'Futility' means use lessness. The title of the poem 'Futility' gives us a clear idea about the theme of the poem. The poet thinks is war nothing but a massacre of young boys. The poem is about the death of a strong English Soldier in an alien land. The poet says with pain in his heart that the sun cannat bring the dead soldier back to life. So the efforts of the sun are futile. Thus the title of the poem is apt.
The meaning of the word despair can be: the sense of futility, loss of hope, loss of confidence, cannot cope, sense of defeat. One synonym is to loose heart.
The futility of the attempt was painfully obvious.
utility rhymes with futility.
No. The word "futility" does not appear in the KJV bible.
Trying to teach some people rules of behavior is an exercise in futility .
Dad has smoked for over thirty years and urging him to quit is an exercise in futility.
The cast of Futility - 2013 includes: Marla Weaver as Woman
pointlessness or uselessness
The cast of Of Hope and Futility - 2012 includes: Al Topich
Futility - 2013 was released on: USA: 7 January 2013 (NewFilmmakers New York)
The cast of On the Futility of Escaping from the Self - 2009 includes: Daniella Gitlin
The cast of Futility - 2006 includes: Jennifer Fantozi Lou Lentino Leslea Snyder
'Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan' by Morgan Robertson.