Word of the Week: March 17-21

FUTILE- adjective

Definition: producing no result or effect

Synonyms

Ineffectual Otiose Unavailing Useless

Antonyms

Fruitful Productive Profitable Valuable

Related forms

Futility (noun)

In plain English…

When something fails to deliver a useful result, you can call it futile.

(Hopefully all the time you're spending studying vocabulary won't turn out to be futile!)

FUTILITY in To Kill a Mockingbird To most, it seemed futile for Atticus

to defend Tom Robinson.