All 3 Uses of
futile
in
The Chrysalids
- He began to feel more sure of himself, and I, more futile.†
Chpt 5
- And then my Aunt Harriet: 'I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world.... Poor Aunt Harriet, with her prayers as futile as her hopes...A world in which a man could come upon such a hunt himself!†
Chpt 16
- The cord has been cut at the other end already; it will only be a futile entanglement if you do not cut it at your end, too.
Chpt 16 *futile = pointless (because it is unproductive or unsuccessful)
Definition:
effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful