'Fruitless' definitions:
Definition of 'fruitless'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain]
Definition of 'Fruitless'
From: GCIDE
- 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. -- {Fruit"less*ly}, adv. -- {Fruit"lness*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fruitless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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