fruitless
fruitless is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 39 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy. They in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours. Milton. See Useless. -- Fruit"less*ly, adv. -- Fruit"lness*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acarpous
- addle
- and
- arid
- barren
- come
- desert
- disable
- effect
- fallow
- fire
- flash
- hang
- impotence
- infecund
- infecundity
- infertile
- infertility
- inoperative
- inutility
- issueless
- make
- masturbation
- nothing
- null
- pan
- sine
- sterile
- sterility
- sterilize
- teemless
- the
- unfertile
- unfruitful
- useless
- void
- waste
- wild
- wilderness
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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