futility

futility

1. turhuus, hyödyttömyys, tuloksettomuus

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futility

hyödyttömyys, tarpeettomuus, käyttökelvottomuus.

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futility (englanti > suomi)

1. turhuus, hyödyttömyys

futility englanniksi

1. puhekieltä The quality of being futile or useless.

His taking the bar exam for a third time was pure futility.

2. puhekieltä Something, especially an act, that is futile.

3. {{quote-book|year=1803|author=Thomas Jefferson|title=Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16784

4. 1843, w:Thomas_Carlyle Thomas Carlyle, :w:Past and Present (book)|Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy

No man oppresses thee, can bid thee fetch or carry, come or go, without reason shewn. … No man, wiser, unwiser, can make thee come or go: but thy own futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for Money, Windsor Georges and such like?

5. {{quote-book|year=1919|author=F. Scott Fitzgerald|title=This Side of Paradise|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/805

6. {{quote-journal|date=September 5, 2009|author=Robert Clark|title=Exhibition preview: Goya: Fantasies, Follies And Disasters, Manchester|work=Guardian|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/05/goya-exhibition-manchester

7. puhekieltä unimportance Unimportance.

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