Fruitless \Fruit"less\, a.
1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of
offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless
marriage. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle;
useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a
fruitless controversy.
[1913 Webster]
They in mutual accusation spent
The fruitless hours. --Milton.
Syn: Useless; barren; unprofitable; abortive; ineffectual;
vain; idle; profitless. See Useless. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fruitless
adj : unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years
after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a
vain attempt" [syn: bootless, futile, sleeveless,
vain]
WordNet (r) 2.0
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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