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
- adjective Producing no useful result; unsuccessful.
- adjective Bearing no fruit.
frustrate — full definition
- verb To prevent someone from achieving something, causing annoyance or disappointment.
- verb To block or defeat a plan or effort.