Meanings (ES + gloss)
inútil • vano
Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
But Bathsheba, though she could feel, was not much given to futile dreaming, and her musings under this head were short and entirely confined to the times when Troy’s neglect was m…
He seemed hitherto to have been living by proxy, in a vision, in reflection—to have been an echo, a shadow, a futile attempt;[…]
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