waste of effort

1. 1.

   a useless effort

   Synonymswaste of energy

   Broaderwaste

Questions about waste of effort

What does waste of effort mean?

waste of effort means "a useless effort".

What is another word for waste of effort?

Close synonyms include waste of energy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is waste of effort a common word?

waste of effort is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.