 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fruitless
adjective: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years
after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a
vain attempt" [syn: {bootless}, {futile}, {sleeveless},
{vain}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fruitless \Fruit"less\, adjective
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}, adverb -- {Fruit"lness*ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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