unfruitful
1
5.9
- adjective
- /ʌnˈfruːtfl/
:
infructífero
- We'd heard rumors that the CEOs of Apple and Samsung were getting together today for one last court-mandated meeting, but their discussion proved unfruitful.
- proved to be unfruitful
Examples
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Aerial reconnaissance has proven unfruitful.
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Faith is something that no other man can rob, regardless of flawed, unfruitful debates.
Blog text (2) -
Be prepared to work hard and long, and expect unfruitful days.
Academic text (2010) -
Let me ask just a few more questions and this one sometimes is extremely difficult and unfruitful, but I'll try it anyway.
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Indeed, if this state came about, the world would be a most uninteresting and unfruitful place.
Academic text (1995) -
Teaching other people with this type of mentality is bound to be sterile and unfruitful.
Blog text (6) -
That and the sense that, at forty-five, his life was racing by, joyless and unfruitful.
Fiction book (1999) -
After several hours of work, the researchers concluded that their efforts had been unfruitful.
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Her attempts to fix the old computer were unfruitful, as it refused to turn on.
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The meeting was deemed unfruitful, with no new ideas or solutions presented.
Synonyms
24
4.8
Not giving the results you want
21
3.8
Not giving useful or wanted results
Not producing any useful result or profit
A plant that does not produce fruit
Antonyms
How Fruitful
41
7.2
43
3.9
293
3.5
21
3.8
1
5.9
57
4.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unfruitful comes from un- ('not') and fruit plus -ful ('full of'). Imagine a tree with no fruit—nothing useful grows from it—so unfruitful means 'not producing results, crops, or benefits'.