About The Word Fruitless
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Fruitless
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What's The Definition Of Fruitless?
[adj] unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Fruitless: bootless | futile | sleeveless | unproductive | vain Related Terms | Find terms related to Fruitless: abortive | acarpous | arid | barren | bootless | celibate | childless | counterproductive | desert | desolate | drained | dried-up | dry | effete | empty | etiolated | exhausted | failed | failing | fallow | fatuitous | fatuous | feckless | foiled | frustrated | futile | gainless | gaunt | gelded | idle | impotent | inadequate | inane | ineffective | ineffectual | inefficacious | infecund | infertile | inoperative | invalid | issueless | jejune | lame | leached | manque | menopausal | miscarried | miscarrying | nonfertile | nonproducing | nonproductive | nonprolific | nonremunerative | nugacious | nugatory | of no effect | of no force | otiose | pointless | profitless | rewardless | sine prole | sterile | stickit | stillborn | successless | sucked dry | teemless | thwarted | unavailable | unavailing | uncultivated | unfertile | unfortunate | unfruitful | unplowed | unproductive | unprofitable | unprolific | unremunerative | unrewarding | unsown | unsuccessful | untilled | useless | vain | virgin | waste | wasted | without issue | worthless See Also | Fruitless In Webster's Dictionary \Fruit"less\, a.
1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of
offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless
marriage. --Shak.
2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle;
useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a
fruitless controversy.
They in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours.
--Milton.
Syn: Useless; barren; unprofitable; abortive; ineffectual;
vain; idle; profitless. See {Useless}. --
{Fruit"less*ly}, adv. -- {Fruit"lness*ness}, n.
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