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adjectiveuseless; unproductive; without results or success: a fruitless search for the missing treasure. bearing no fruit; barren. Origin of fruitlessMiddle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at fruit, -less SYNONYMS FOR fruitless1 futile, unavailing, vain. 2 sterile. SEE SYNONYMS FOR fruitless ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR fruitless1 useful, profitable. 2 fertile. SEE ANTONYMS FOR fruitless ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM fruitlessfruit·less·ly, adverbfruit·less·ness, nounWords nearby fruitlessfruiting body, fruition, fruitive, fruit jar, fruit knife, fruitless, fruitlet, fruit machine, fruit ranch, fruit salad, fruit sugar Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fruitlessThe latter had had a lovely if fruitless game, running rings around the U.S. defense but failing, repeatedly, to score. Team USA Goes Down Swinging in 2-1 World Cup Loss to Belgium|Tunku Varadarajan|July 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST "My pre-emptive action of hand shaking was fruitless," Hatami said, explaining the kiss. The Kiss That Sent Iran Crazy and an Actress to Be Flogged in Public|IranWire|May 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST My search was fruitless, and after a while I gave it up and came back to find Mr. Wilde squatting on his high chair by the table. Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST Let's wait to see if both top diplomats make it to that table before declaring diplomacy a fruitless exercise. Rouhani at the U.N.—Disappointment or Success?|Ali Gharib|September 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
With Watergate closing in, Nixon fired Haldeman and Ehrlichman in a fruitless effort to insulate himself. The Nixon Home Movies: Glimpses of Tragedy in ‘Our Nixon’|Eleanor Clift|August 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST But it is fruitless to look there, in those Paper-bags, for such. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History|Thomas Carlyle Wolfe spent the summer in fruitless efforts to reduce Quebec. The Land We Live In|Henry Mann An extremely rare bird, a robin, hopped from his path and continued a fruitless search for insects. Thy Rocks and Rills|Robert Ernest Gilbert The brethren of Saxony appealed to him from their visitor, and, finding this fruitless, they carried their complaint to Gregory. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume III|Henry Charles Lea The efforts to draw something out of little Dorothea were also fruitless. The Goose Man|Jacob Wassermann
British Dictionary definitions for fruitless
adjectiveyielding nothing or nothing of value; unproductive; ineffectual without fruit Derived forms of fruitlessfruitlessly, adverbfruitlessness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to fruitlessunproductive, abortive, ineffectual, ineffective, useless, unsuccessful, pointless, futile, barren, empty, idle, infertile, sterile, unavailable, unavailing, unfruitful, unprofitable, vain, gainless, in vain |