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Talkative; loquacious; tattling.

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  1. v. t. Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
  2. v. t. Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.
  3. adj. producing no result or effect
  4. adj. unproductive of success
  5. 1. Talkative; loquacious; tattling. [Obs.] 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.
  6. j:100 s. producing no result or effect