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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 |