Noah Webster
Futile
FU'TILE, adjective [Latin futilis, from futio, to pour out; effutio, to prate or babble; Heb. to utter rashly or foolishly.]
1. Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
2. Trifling; of no weight or importance; answering no valuable purpose; worthless.
3. Of no effect.