Fu"tile ]
1.
Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
[Obs.]
Talkers and futile persons.
Bacon.
2.
Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.
"
Futile theories."
I. Taylor.
His reasoning . . . was singularly futile.
Macaulay.
© Webster 1913.