fruitless
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Adjective
Failing to achieve the desired results; unproductive or useless,
/ˈfro͞otləs/,
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Failing to achieve the desired results; unproductive or useless,
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Failing to achieve the desired results; unproductive or useless
- - his fruitless attempts to publish poetry
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(of a tree or plant) Not producing fruit
Web Definitions:
- bootless: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
- (fruitlessly) unproductively: in an unproductive manner
- (fruitlessness) a lack of creative imagination
- (fruitlessness) the quality of yielding nothing of value
- The fruitless gene (fru) is a Drosophila melanogaster gene that encodes several variants of a putative transcription factor protein. ...
- Useless; unproductive; Bearing no fruit; barren