Futile vs Disappointing - What's the difference?
futile | disappointing | Related terms |
Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
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Futile is a related term of disappointing.
As adjectives the difference between futile and disappointing
is that futile is incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting while disappointing is that disappoints or disappoint.As a verb disappointing is
.futile
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Adjective
(en adjective)Shamrock Rovers 0-4 Tottenham, passage=Goals from Steven Pienaar, Andros Townsend, Jermain Defoe and Harry Kane sealed the win, but Rubin Kazan's 1-1 draw against PAOK Salonika rendered Spurs' efforts futile .}}