1
as in futility
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2
as in pointlessness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uselessness
Noun
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Reading through Carnot’s book a few decades later, in 1865, the German physicist Rudolf Clausius coined a term for the proportion of energy that’s locked up in futility.—
Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Dec. 2024 -
Filmmakers have been telling comparable stories for years — see Liz Garbus and Jonathan Stack’s The Farm: Angola, USA, or Ava DuVernay’s 13th, among many others — and the futility is baked in.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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With its founder and leader incarcerated, the Oath Keepers, which once claimed tens of thousands of members, many of them current and former military and law enforcement, also largely fizzled away into insignificance.—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
13 Nov. 2024
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The compositions prioritize headspace for the sky to take over the frame during exterior shots, communicating Rico’s feeling of insignificance against the immensity of what burdens him.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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This column started out as The Week in Stupid, a roundup of the jaw-dropping inanities of the last seven days.—
Pat Beall,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2025
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The conflict is a sustained demonstration of war’s essential inanity.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Uselessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uselessness. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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