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What does futile mean?

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Adjective
  1. Incapable of producing results; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
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Many people seem to take this for granted and consider all resistance futile.
The adoption of fusionist policies by Lombards and Venetians alike proved futile.
It's a great cause and I know from my own futile efforts to stay on the wagon, a great gesture from the alcohol loving Smith.
It's as futile as players complaining to referees after the fact about penalties and red cards.
Signs of bloat are stomach pain and futile attempts to vomit and to salivate.
Josh's mind boggled in the futile effort to penetrate the abstruse complexity of an esoteric form of thinking that was altogether foreign to him.

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