Clues for the word "FUTILE"
We've had 34 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 61 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 03, 2025.
Definition of futile
- v. t. - Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
- v. t. - Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.
Referring Clues
- Pointless
- Vain
- To no avail
- Useless
- Ineffective
- Lacking purpose
- Hopeless
- Not worth doing
- Absolutely useless
- In vain
- Unsuccessful
- Of no use
- To no purpose
- Not effective
- Pointless, as an effort
- It's useless turning it into a form of fuel
- If it's bad fuel, it is useless
- Maybe it's covered in spilt fuel, thus useless
- "As a flute-player", I put in, "is useless"
- Mixing it into the wrong fuel is useless!
- Not many say Scrabble letter is pointless
- Pointless dossier about beginnings of unending time
- Vain female finds acceptable hat
- Doomed to fail
- Completely ineffective
- Unsuccessful, pointless
- No good
- Vain, useless
- "A broken flute", I put in, "is useless"
- Destined to fail
- "Resistance is ___"
- A waste of time
- To blend it into the fuel mixture is useless
- Fruitless
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 09, 2025
- Mirror Mini - January 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 28, 2024
- USA Today - September 14, 2024
- Mirror Mini - July 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 05, 2024
- USA Today - December 09, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 17, 2023
- Mirror Mini - July 08, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - June 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 30, 2022
- Daily Quick - November 07, 2022
- Mirror Mini - July 08, 2022
- Mirror Mini - January 13, 2018
- Evening Standard Easy - January 02, 2018
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 12, 2017
- Universal - August 22, 2017
- Daily Quick - June 23, 2017
- Netword - June 21, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - May 26, 2017
- And in 31 more crossword puzzles...