GRE Word List
FUTILE
serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective
The meaning of the word futile is serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |