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turha — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fruitless adjective Producing no useful result; unsuccessful.
  • frustrate verb To prevent someone from achieving something, causing annoyance or disappointment.
  • futile adjective Producing no useful result; pointless or doomed to fail.
  • pointless adj Having no useful purpose; not worth doing.
  • unavailing adj Fruitless, futile, useless.
  • unnecessary adjective Not needed; more than is required.
  • useless adjective Not able to be used; serving no practical purpose.
  • vain adj Excessively proud of one's own looks or achievements.
  • worthless adj Having no value or use.

Senses

turha is used for these senses in English:

  • for the birds (idiomatic, originally, US, _, military slang, informal) Not deserving serious consideration; unimportant; useless, worthless. [from 1940s]
  • fruitless (figuratively) Unproductive, useless.
  • frustrate ineffectual; useless; fruitless.
  • futile Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
  • in vain (idiomatic) Unsuccessful, failed.
  • unavailing Fruitless, futile, useless.
  • unnecessary Not needed or necessary.
  • useless Without use or possibility to be used.

fruitless — full definition

  1. adjective Producing no useful result; unsuccessful.
  2. adjective Bearing no fruit.

frustrate — full definition

  1. verb To prevent someone from achieving something, causing annoyance or disappointment.
  2. verb To block or defeat a plan or effort.

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