Futile vs Trifling - What's the difference?
futile | trifling | Synonyms |
Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.
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, title= trivial, or of little importance
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idle or frivolous
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
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Futile is a synonym of trifling.
As adjectives the difference between futile and trifling
is that futile is incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting while trifling is trivial, or of little importance.As a noun trifling is
the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.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 .}}
Synonyms
* ineffectual * unavailing * vain * idle * fruitless * See alsoAntonyms
* effectual * effectivetrifling
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Adjective
(en adjective)- it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
Synonyms
* trivial * inconsequential * petty * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.