Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: vergeefse
- Amharic: futile
- Arabic: عقيمة
- Azerbaijani: faydasız
- Bashkir: файҙа
- Belarusian: бескарысна
- Bulgarian: безполезно
- Bengali: বৃথা
- Bosnian: uzaludan
- Catalan: inútil
- Cebuano: walay kapuslanan
- Czech: marné
- Welsh: ofer
- Danish: forgæves
- German: zwecklos
- Greek: μάταιη
- Esperanto: vana
- Spanish: inútil
- Estonian: mõttetu
- Basque: futile
- Persian: بیهوده
- Finnish: turhaa
- French: futile
- Irish: futile
- Scottish Gaelic: futile
- Galician: fútil
- Gujarati: વ્યર્થ
- Hebrew: תועלת
- Hindi: व्यर्थ
- Croatian: beskorisno
- Haitian: initil
- Hungarian: hiábavaló
- Armenian: անօգուտ է
- Indonesian: sia-sia
- Icelandic: tilgangslausar
- Italian: inutile
- Japanese: 不毛な
- Javanese: tanpa guna
- Georgian: უშედეგო
- Kazakh: пайдасыз
- Khmer: ប្រយោជន៍
- Kannada: ನಿರರ್ಥಕ
- Korean: 쓸데없
- Kyrgyz: пайдасыз
- Latin: futile
- Luxembourgish: zwecklos
- Lao: ຟື້ນ
- Lithuanian: beprasmiška
- Latvian: veltīgi
- Malagasy: tsy misy dikany
- Mari: арамыш
- Maori: teka
- Macedonian: futile
- Malayalam: വിഫലമായ
- Mongolian: дэмий зүйл
- Marathi: व्यर्थ
- Hill Mari: аран
- Malay: sia-sia
- Maltese: għalxejn
- Burmese: ထေျ
- Nepali: निरर्थक
- Dutch: zinloos
- Norwegian: fåfengt
- Punjabi: ਵਿਅਰਥ
- Papiamento: inutil
- Polish: bezużyteczne
- Portuguese: fútil
- Romanian: inutil
- Russian: бесполезно
- Sinhalese: නිරර්ථක
- Slovak: márny
- Slovenian: jalovo
- Albanian: është e kotë
- Serbian: бескорисно
- Sundanese: sia sia
- Swedish: meningslöst
- Swahili: bure
- Tamil: வீண்
- Telugu: వారించటానికి
- Tajik: бефоида аст
- Thai: ไร้ประโยชน์
- Tagalog: walang saysay
- Turkish: beyhude
- Tatar: файдасыз
- Udmurt: пайдатэм
- Ukrainian: марно
- Urdu: لاحاصل
- Uzbek: behuda
- Vietnamese: vô ích
- Xhosa: futile
- Yiddish: ומזיסט
- Chinese: 徒劳的
Synonyms, close and similar words for futile
- useless
- worthless
- valueless
- needless
- unhelpful
- otiose
- inutile
- gimmicky
- profitless
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- barren
- unsuccessful
- fruitless
- ineffectual
- inconclusive
- ineffective
- unavailing
- wasted
- vain
- empty
- abortive
- unserious
- frivolous
- idle