fruitless
About 1.69 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Bearing no fruit; barren.
- adjective Unproductive, useless.
The unskilled man’s attempt at fixing his car engine was fruitless.
- adjective Of a person: unable to have children; barren, infertile.
The fruitless woman desperately wanted to have children.
- adjective Of a diet, etc.: without fruit.
Similar words
unproductive futile bootless vain sleeveless meaningless senseless ineffectual ineffective useless
Often followed by
search and attempts to efforts attempt effort as negotiations
Word family
fruitlessly fruitlessness fruitlessnesses
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