Talkers and futile persons.
Bacon.
2. Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.
"Futile theories." I. Taylor.
His reasoning . . . was singularly futile.
Macaulay.
Fu"tile*ly, adv. In a futile manner.
Fu"til`i*ty (?), n. [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilitÈ.] 1. The quality of
being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]
2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to
nothing; uselessness.
The futility of this mode of philosophizing.
Whewell.