Vocabulary
Futility
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
pointlessness or uselessness.
Urdu meaning
بے نتیجہ، بے اثر، ناکارہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- For Pakistan and the planet this treaty must not be another exercise in futility that leaves the root of the problem untouched.
- The intent appears to be to discourage any agitation by repeatedly demonstrating the latter`s futility.
- A favourite one was a reel of driving on a Karachi road in the dark, with the voiceover explaining the futility of bombing an already broken and wrecked city.
- As he put it: `Learned helplessness is a phenomenon observed when people, after being repeatedly exposed to stressors they feel powerless to control, begin to internalise a sense of futility.
- On the other hand, mysticism devoid of a scientific, organic picture ofthe universe is an exercise in futility as the void spiritualism of the East depicts.
Synonyms
fruitlessness, vanity, pointlessness, uselessness, worthlessness, ineffectuality, ineffectiveness
Antonyms
usefulness, fruitfulness
Curator example
“the horror and futility of war”
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