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Futile vs Hamper - What's the difference?

futile | hamper |

As an adjective futile

is incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.

As a noun hamper is

a large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as, or hamper can be a shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.

As a verb hamper is

to put into a hamper or hamper can be to put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.

futile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • *
  • *: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.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 15, author=Marc Higginson, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= 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 .}}

    Synonyms

    * ineffectual * unavailing * vain * idle * fruitless * See also

    Antonyms

    * effectual * effective

    Related terms

    * futility * futilitarian

    hamper

    English

    (wikipedia hamper)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hamper, contracted from hanaper, hanypere, from (etyl) hanaper, (etyl) hanapier, .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals; as,
  • * a hamper of wine
  • * a clothes hamper
  • * an oyster hamper , which contains two bushels

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a hamper.
    • ''Competition pigeons are hampered for the truck trip to the point of release where the race back starts

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hamperen, . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to ensnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
  • * Blackmore:
    • Hampered nerves.
  • * :
    • A lion hampered in a net.
  • * :
    • They hamper and entangle our souls.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
  • (nautical) Articles]] [[ordinary, ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
    • Derived terms
    * Top hamper , (Nautical): unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft.