Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no prospect or hope of success in one's future.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without prospect of betterment in the future.
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- adjective Without a
future .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no prospect or hope of a future
Etymologies
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Examples
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Young Tarwater is hungry for more than the world can supply; Rayber suffers from the drag of a 'futureless' love that wants and needs only itself as love and seeks no outcome.
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Yet without the breakthrough to the level of hunger and 'futureless' passion, there is no forgiveness.
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To arrive at the point where the world can be truthfully named in its relation to God involves some grasp of the world as object of pointless, 'futureless' love; it must therefore involve levels of bewilderment, deep emotional confusion and frustration in the process, even a blurring of the boundaries between love and rejection (since we are frightened of replacing ordinary human affection with this radical and disabling love).
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They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.
HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010
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They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.
Archive 2008-11-01 Not a sheep 2008
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They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
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They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.
HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010
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They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.
Obama's army? Not a sheep 2008
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No. He is, in fact, a mouth-breathing brat, an uncommunicative cipher, a selfish unappreciative loafer, an aggressively stupid misfit and a foul-tongued, futureless creep.
Kim Morgan: Bobcat's Family Values: World's Greatest Dad 2009
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