futureless

[fyoo-cher-lis]

adjective

1. without a future; having no prospect of future betterment or prosperity.

Word History and Origins

Origin of futureless¹

First recorded in 1860–65; future + -less

Example Sentences

It’s a film that fails to ask what might it mean, narratively, to revive our dead, only to have them live — soullessly — in this futureless state.

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It is our sad fate that it has to happen again today and so into the futureless future.

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At 15, homeless, using heroin and in a gang, I was lost, enraged, futureless.

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Environmentalists also see oil as futureless and unnecessary.

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They never had to decide how long to stick with a futureless sport.

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