Meanings
adjectivefutilous (comparative more futilous, superlative most futilous)
comparative more futilous · superlative most futilous
- obsoletefutile; trifling
futilous imaginations for the future
1674, John Owen, A vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning communion with God […]1 more example
Vain and futilous are the feavourish dreams of the antient Rabbins
1659, Samuel Lee, Orbis miraculum, or, The temple of Solomon […]
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