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Futile vs Trifling - What's the difference?

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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

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.
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  • , 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

    trifling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • trivial, or of little importance
  • * 2005 , .
  • it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
  • idle or frivolous
  • Synonyms

    * trivial * inconsequential * petty * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
  • * George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
  • 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.

    Anagrams

    * flirting