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31futility — n. 1. Triviality, frivolousness. 2. Uselessness, worthlessness, vanity, bootlessness, fruitlessness …
32account — n 1 *use, service, advantage, profit, avail Analogous words: benefit (see corresponding verb at BENEFIT): usefulness, utility (see USE): *worth, value Contrasted words: futility, vanity, fruitlessness, bootlessness (see corresponding adjectives… …
33barrenness — n 1. childlessness, sterility, infertility, unprolificness, infecundity, Med. agenesis, impotence, effeteness. 2. unproductiveness, unyieldingness, unfruitfulness, fruitlessness; exhaustion, depletion, impoverishment; meagerness, scarcity,… …
34futility — n 1. uselessness, bootlessness, ineffectiveness, nonsuccess, nonfulfillment, failure; fruitlessness, unproductiveness, abortiveness, barrenness, sterility, impotence; unprofitableness, carrying coals to Newcastle, carrying water in a sieve,… …
35impotence — n 1. powerlessness, helplessness, weak ness, feebleness, frailty, infirmity, impuissance; exhaustion, enfeeblement, prostration, demoralization; enervation, debilitation, disablement; decrepitude, senility, senescence, valetudinarianism,… …
36inefficacy — n 1. ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness; incapacity, inability, inadequacy, inefficiency, incompetence, ineptitude; uselessness, inutility, worthlessness, valuelessness, meritlessness, nu gacity. 2. futility, bootlessness,… …
37inutility — n 1. uselessness, ineffectuality, inef fectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacy, bootlessness; pouring water into a sieve, carrying coals to Newcastle, casting pearls before swine, beating the air, kicking against the pricks, baying the moon;… …
38sterility — n 1. purity, harmlessness, uninfectiousness, asepticism, cleanliness. 2. childlessness, barrenness, infertility, unprolificness, infecundity, Med. agenesis, impotence, effeteness. 3. unproductiveness, unyieldingness, unfruitfulness,… …
39bootless — /ˈbutləs / (say boohtluhs) adjective without advantage; unavailing; useless. {Middle English, Old English bōtlēas unpardonable, from bōt boot2 + lēas less} –bootlessly, adverb –bootlessness, noun …
40bootless — [bo͞ot′lis] adj. [ BOOT2 + LESS] without benefit; useless bootlessly adv. bootlessness n …
