Term: mug's game: a futile or unprofitable endeavor
Broader: attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Unrelated: colloquium: an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting
Broader: attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Unrelated: principle of relativity: (physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred
Broader: attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Unrelated: false nettle: any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs
Broader: attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Unrelated: alarm: a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
Broader: attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Unrelated: kingpin: the most important person in a group or undertaking
Broader: attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Unrelated: psychopsis krameriana: orchid of South and Central America having flowers similar to but smaller than Psychopsis papilio; sometimes placed in genus Oncidium
Broader: attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Unrelated: jacobin: a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
Broader: attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Unrelated: schnook: (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised
Broader: attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Unrelated: platte river penstemon: erect plant with blue-violet flowers in rings near tips of stems; Idaho to Utah and Wyoming
Broader: attempt: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Unrelated: squeamishness: the trait of being excessively fastidious and easily shocked