resultlessadj.

1832 H. S. Chapman Thoughts Money & Exchanges Lower Canada 14 The vague and resultless recommendation of the Committee of the Council.

1846 Blackwood's Mag. 60 336 Disgust at the resultless strife has not yet replaced the interest and excitement it creates.

1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 83 The cession is held in that case to be resultless.

1921 Times 15 Sept. 14/2 The steady increase in the purchasing power of the dollar had, however, rendered resultless the efforts of the other countries to keep up their position in relation to the dollar.

1968 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times-News 12 May 4 b/1 Why have these meaningless, or at least resultless, primaries?

1999 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 13 Feb. h5 That it has proven resultless he has only his own policy to blame.

1839 G. Field Outl. Analogic. Philos. II. 244 As to disinterestedness, it is an apathetic principle, which moulders in the individual too often resultlessly.

1900 Academy 18 Aug. 137/2 Bulwer Lytton is clever without depth, and resultlessly interesting.

1996 Baltic News Service (Nexis) 4 Apr. The council has repeatedly and resultlessly considered changes in the councils of such companies as Ventspils Nafta.

1852 W. Pulsford tr. J. Müller Christian Doctr. Sin I. ii. iv. 429 This resultlessness shows itself very distinctly in the hard endeavorings of Vatke to make, if possible, this intelligible necessity of evil equal to the moral necessity.

1914 Mind 23 144 The book..leaves a most unpleasant sense of the resultlessness of the struggle for knowledge.

1998 N. Rescher Communicative Pragmatism & Other Ess. iv. 78 We should, by accepting each of these claims and conjoining them into a single whole, again be driven to the impossible conclusion of resultlessness.