Fruitless

Word FRUITLESS
Character 9
Hyphenation fruit less
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Fruitless"

What do we mean by fruitless?

Producing no fruit. adjective

Not leading to success; unproductive: synonym: futile. adjective

Not bearing fruit; destitute of fruit or offspring: as, a fruitless plant; a fruitless marriage.

Productive of or attended by no advantage or good result; ineffective; useless; idle: as, a fruitless attempt; a, fruitless controversy.

Synonyms Barren, unprofitable, profitless Ineffectual, Unavailing, etc. (see useless); vain, idle, abortive, bootless, futile.

Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring adjective

Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable adjective

Useless; unproductive. adjective

Bearing no fruit; barren. adjective

Unproductive of success adjective

Bearing no fruit; barren.

Unproductive, useless.

Of a person: unable to have children; barren, infertile.

Of a diet, etc.: without fruit.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Fruitless

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The word "fruitless" in example sentences

The extent of the division became further apparent as a German member of the ECB, Jürgen Stark, bluntly urged governments from the bloc of euro-using nations to halt what he called the "fruitless" discussion over a private-sector role in a new Greek bailout. ❋ Patrick McGroarty (2011)

Frustrated with what she describes as fruitless and repetitive interviews, Ms. Abbas resigned from her Guantanamo post in 2002, and returned to another sales job in California. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The results confirm that a gene known as "fruitless" is a key factor underlying sexual differences in behavior. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Contentment must spring from the mind, and she who seeks happiness by changing anything but her own disposition, will waste her life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the things she wishes to remove. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Contentment must spring from the mind, and she who seeks happiness by changing anything but her own disposition, will waste her life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the things she wishes to remove." ❋ Unknown (2009)

This makes it possible to constantly move towards our goals and not get caught up in fruitless opportunity chasing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

George spent another ten minutes in fruitless argument, but without success. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Some gene mutations are lethal to flies; fruitless is not one of these, nor does it cause illness. ❋ Unknown (1997)

After establishing the precise location (or locations) of the mutation, researchers can determine the sequence of biochemical information in fruitless's genetic code — the order of thousands of units of the basic genetic components adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Job-creation programs, you see, were ideologically bad as far as he was concerned because they usually ended up in fruitless dig-a-hole-then-fill-a-hole schemes and only provided temporary jobs that did not lead to anything. ❋ Unknown (1985)

Washington wore himself out in fruitless efforts to awaken Congress to a sense of its duty. ❋ Henrietta Elizabeth (1917)

To and fro they darted wildly, striving to head off the cheerful culprits: lifted up their voices in fruitless shouting, and wasted much necessary breath in uttering wild threats of what might be expected to happen when – if ever – they succeeded in yarding the enemy. ❋ Unknown (1911)

"The semiofficial 'Lokal-Anzeiger' is particularly violent; it describes as fruitless any possible appeals that Serbia may make to St. Petersburg, Paris, Athens, or Bucharest, and concludes by saying that the German people will breathe freely when they learn that the situation in the Balkan Peninsula is to be cleared up at last." ❋ Francis Trevelyan Miller (1902)

Umbrellas, parasols, shoes, stockings, body-linen, and all with such minute and inconceivably particular directions as to shades and shapes and materials, that poor F — has been half distracted, and exhausted herself in fruitless endeavors to obtain the identical things sent for. ❋ Unknown (1891)

How many lonely hours, day after day, have I bent the knee in fruitless prayer that ❋ Unknown (1869)

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