- fruitless adj
- If you're looking for oranges on an apple tree you will have a fruitless search.
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fruitless adj
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fruitless — [adj] bringing no advantage, product abortive, barren, empty, futile, gainless, idle, ineffective, ineffectual, infertile, in vain, pointless, profitless, spinning one’s wheels*, sterile, to no avail*, to no effect*, unavailable, unavailing,… … New thesaurus
fruitless — adj. VERBS ▪ be, prove, seem ADVERB ▪ completely, utterly ▪ largely ▪ appa … Collocations dictionary
fruitless — [fro͞ot′lis] adj. [ME fruitles] 1. without results; unprofitable; unsuccessful; vain 2. bearing no fruit; sterile; barren SYN. FUTILE fruitlessly adv. fruitlessness n … English World dictionary
fruitless — adj 1. futile, vain, idle, unavailing, abortive, bootless, worthless, useless; ineffectual, ineffective, inefficacious; unproductive, unyielding, unprofitable, profitless, unremunerative, unrewarding, unpaying, gainless; unsuccessful, Inf. no go … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
fruitless — adj. 1 not bearing fruit. 2 useless, unsuccessful, unprofitable. Derivatives: fruitlessly adv. fruitlessness n … Useful english dictionary
fruitless — fruit|less [ˈfru:tləs] adj failing to achieve what was wanted, especially after a lot of effort ≠ ↑fruitful fruitless attempt/exercise ▪ a fruitless attempt to settle the dispute ▪ So far, their search has been fruitless. >fruitlessly adv … Dictionary of contemporary English
fruitless — [[t]fru͟ːtləs[/t]] ADJ GRADED Fruitless actions, events, or efforts do not achieve anything at all. It was a fruitless search... Talks have so far have been fruitless. Syn: unproductive Derived words: fruitlessly ADV ADV with v Four years of… … English dictionary
fruitless — fruitlessly, adv. fruitlessness, n. /frooht lis/, adj. 1. useless; unproductive; without results or success: a fruitless search for the missing treasure. 2. bearing no fruit; barren. [1300 50; ME; see FRUIT, LESS] Syn. 1. futile, unavailing, vain … Universalium
fruitless — [ˈfruːtləs] adj producing no good results Ant: fruitful a fruitless search[/ex] … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
fruitless — fruit•less [[t]ˈfrut lɪs[/t]] adj. 1) useless; unproductive; without results or success: a fruitless search[/ex] 2) bot bearing no fruit; barren • Etymology: 1300–50 fruit′less•ly, adv. fruit′less•ness, n … From formal English to slang
