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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L.

futilis

that easily pours out, that easily lets loose, vain, worthless, from the root of

fundere

to pour out: cf. F.

futile

. See

Verb.

]

Talkative; loquacious; tattling.

[Obs.]

Talkers and

futile

persons.

Bacon.

Of no importance; having no useful purpose; useless; vain; worthless; pointless.

“Futile theories.”

I. Taylor.

His reasoning . . . was singularly

futile

Macaulay.

Adj.

[L. futilis, from futio, to pour out; effutio, to prate or babble; Heb. to utter rashly or foolishly.]

Talkative; loquacious; tattling.

Trifling; of no weight or importance; answering no valuable purpose; worthless.

Of no effect.