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futureless

American  
[fyoo-cher-lis] / ˈfju tʃər lɪs /

adjective

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


Etymology

Origin of futureless

First recorded in 1860–65; future + -less


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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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2023

Now it is a “dead city,” in Zelenskyy’s phrase: smashed, scorched; nearly flattened, nearly futureless.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

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

From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2020

To idealists of the 21st century, it may seem that on many social, economic and ethical fronts the country has come to what seems a futureless halt, just as the museum’s civil rights story does.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2018

And it was Kitty that had made it flat, and cold, and futureless.

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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