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Effort's loyalest companion, showing up faithfully to accomplish absolutely nothing.
means The quality of being pointless or doomed, where action produces no useful result no matter how hard you try.
from From Latin futilis, meaning leaky or untrustworthy — literally a vessel that pours out, like a flask too cracked to hold what you fill it with.
Original senseDescribed a leaky pot, not a lost cause.
Sisyphus mascotThe boulder rolls; futility takes the credit.
Related wordFutile shares roots with effusive — both pour out.