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fruitless

adjective

1 fruitless

Unproductive of success:
— A fruitless search.

synonyms: bootless, futile, sleeveless, vain.

Roget 732: unsuccessful, successless; failing, tripping etc. v.; at fault; unfortunate etc. 735.    abortive, addle, stillborn; fruitless, ... show more

Roget 169: unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow; ... show more

Roget 645: useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless; inoperative etc. 158; inadequate etc. (insufficient) 640; ... show more


Moby thesaurus: abortive, acarpous, arid, barren, bootless, celibate, childless, counterproductive, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, effete, empty, etiolated, exhausted, failed, failing, fallow ... show more.

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