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fruitless(dictionary)

fruitless (iou)



fruitless adjective & adverb. LME.
[from FRUIT noun + -LESS.]
A. adjective.
Producing no fruit; barren, sterile. Formerly, producing no offspring. LME.
Producing no results; vain, unsuccessful, futile, unprofitable. LME.
C. Bax I have no money, and so it is fruitless to talk about a fine. I. Murdoch What a lot of his..strength he had wasted on fruitless controversies.
b. adverb. Fruitlessly, without avail. poet. M18.
T. Gray I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear.
fruitlessly adverb L16.
fruitlessness noun E17.