Sutile vs Futile - What's the difference?
sutile | futile |
(formal, rare) Done by stitching.
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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As adjectives the difference between sutile and futile
is that sutile is (formal|rare) done by stitching while futile is incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.sutile
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Adjective
(-)- (Boswell)
- Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of sutile pictures, which imitate tapestry.
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 .}}