Definition of "futilitarian" []

• Holding or based on the view that human endeavor is futile. (adjective)
• One who holds the view that human endeavor is futile. (noun)

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• "Winnie, Beckett’s "hopeful futilitarian" is buried up to her waist in the earth, woken and summoned to bed each day by the same disembodied bell."
• "Grade: C Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a futurist, a futurologist and a futilitarian."
• "In America the silence was more oppressive than the ignorance; but perhaps elsewhere the world might still hide some haunt of futilitarian silence where content reigned, —although long search had not revealed it, —and so the pilgrimage began anew!"