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detailed, Byzantine: The style is a bit too fussy for my taste.
futile adj. unsuccessful, unavailing, useless, unprofitable, vain,
abortive, profitless, bootless, worthless, empty, sterile,
barren, unproductive, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual;
Chiefly literary sleeveless: After several futile attempts to
get in touch with you, I gave up.
future n. 1 days or time to come; tomorrow: Who knows what the future
may bring?
--adj. 2 coming, tomorrow's, later, prospective, following,
unborn, subsequent, expected, approaching; to be to come:
Future generations will appreciate what we have done here.
fuzzy adj. 1 woolly, downy, linty, fleecy, furry, fluffy, frizzy,
flossy, flocculent, floccose, floccus; feathery: Tiny bits from
her fuzzy pullover kept coming off on my suit. 2 dim, faint,
hazy, foggy, misty, blurred, blurry, indistinct, unclear, vague,
shadowy, indefinite, obscure, ill-defined, woolly, distorted:
The picture was too fuzzy to make out any details.
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gab v. 1 jabber, gabble, chatter, gibber, blather or blether,
prate, prattle, blab, gossip, Colloq Brit natter, witter, Slang
jaw, yack, US run off at the mouth: Stop gabbing and get on
with your work!
--n. 2 chatter, chit-chat, prattle, jibber-jabber, jabber,
gossip, blarney, blather or blether, tittle-tattle; cackle,
moonshine, nonsense, drivel, twaddle, rubbish, gobbledegook or
gobbledygook, mumbo-jumbo, poppycock, bunk or bunkum,
balderdash, stuff and nonsense, hogwash, eyewash, Colloq piffle,
flummery, rot, bull, codswallop, Slang bullshit, horseshit,
shit, crap, garbage, Chiefly Brit tosh, balls: He had nothing