fruitless
24
4.8
- adjective
- /ˈfruːt.ləs/
:
infructuoso
- After months of fruitless job applications, she decided to try a different career path.
- a fruitless search
- fruitless efforts
- a fruitless attempt
It is pretty much a fruitless reaction.
- It is pretty much a fruitless reaction.
- Talks are fruitless and it looks once again like Kevin McCarthy is closer than ever to never being speaker of the House.
- I am weak and fruitless at night, like a piece of meat with eyes.
- He spent a lot of ink getting in in very fruitless fights with with some people, but he he also contributed some really earth shaking.
- Do you think that's a fruitless pursuit in near term in within the next several decades?
Examples
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Despite our fruitless efforts thus far, I have not given up hope.
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After days of fruitless searching, would this road lead the team to Colin McKenzie's lost city?
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This kind of talk is fruitless.
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I had spent the last five minutes telling Tree about the fruitless search for Joseph X. Smith.
Fiction book (1992) -
Young man, this line of inquiry is fruitless and beyond your concern.
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Harry retrieved his shoes, made one final, fruitless check of the apartment, and headed home.
Fiction book (1995) -
The search for the bodies remains fruitless... hampered by the explosion of the automobile... and the currents of the Mississippi.
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Experiments with animals, monkeys, rats, and rabbits had proved fruitless for establishing how the disease is transmitted.
Academic text (1992) -
Police divers entered the water around 10:00 with SES volunteers joining a fruitless search...
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I am accused in B.'s letter of engaging in a fruitless, tiresome quest.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
108
3.7
Without success despite trying to do something
90
3.4
Not working well enough to give the wanted result
84
6.0
Not likely to work or help
79
3.9
Not producing the result you want
76
2.9
Not getting the result someone wants
21
3.8
Not giving useful or wanted results
5
7.7
It does not produce the result people want
2
4.5
Not giving useful results or helping to finish work, like a meeting
1
5.9
Not producing good results or crops
1
9.9
Not producing any useful result or success
1
8.2
Not producing the result you want
Not producing any useful result or profit
Antonyms
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How Successful
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Morphology
Etymology
Fruitless comes from fruit, meaning 'result' or 'produce', and the ending -less, meaning 'without'. So fruitless literally means 'without results', which is why we use it for efforts that fail to do any good.