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vain; futile; idle; nugatory; unavailing; feckless; ineffective; useless; frustrated; unprevailing; empty; purposeless; failed (scherfas); dud; frustraneous; frustrate; unhelpful; unproductive; unuseful; void; wasteful | |||
dead-end | |||
footless | |||
no-go | |||
helpless | |||
abortive | |||
fruitless | |||
no go | |||
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ineffectively; to no purpose; to no effect (Andrew Goff); in vain hope; in vain; to no avail (Carnegie's henchmen scour the desolate landscape daily in search of the book, but to no avail. Slavik_K); to little avail (alphaponi); vainly; fondly; ineffectually; uselessly; wastefully; fruitlessly; unproductively | |||
for nothing (Val_Ships) | |||
idly | |||
frustraneously | |||
no cigar (Баян) |
тщетно : 109 phrases in 15 subjects |
Advertising | 4 |
American usage, not spelling | 1 |
Chess | 1 |
Christianity | 1 |
Computers | 1 |
Diplomacy | 2 |
General | 70 |
Idiomatic | 1 |
Informal | 3 |
Law | 1 |
Makarov | 18 |
Mass media | 2 |
Military | 1 |
Sublime | 2 |
Uncommon / rare | 1 |