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fruitless 音标拼音: [fr'utləs] a. 不结果的,不长果实的,无子的 不结果的,不长果实的,无子的 fruitless adj 1: unproductive of success; " a fruitless search"; " futile years after her artistic peak"; " a sleeveless errand"; " a vain attempt" [ synonym: { bootless}, { fruitless}, { futile}, { sleeveless}, { vain}] Fruitless \ Fruit" less\, a. 1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy. [ 1913 Webster] They in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours. -- Milton. Syn: Useless; barren; unprofitable; abortive; ineffectual; vain; idle; profitless. See { Useless}. -- { Fruit" less* ly}, adv. -- { Fruit" lness* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 91 Moby Thesaurus words for " fruitless": abortive, acarpous, arid, barren, bootless, celibate, childless, counterproductive, desert, desolate, drained, dried- up, dry, effete, empty, etiolated, exhausted, failed, failing, fallow, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, foiled, frustrated, futile, gainless, gaunt, gelded, idle, impotent, inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, infecund, infertile, inoperative, invalid, issueless, jejune, lame, leached, manque, menopausal, miscarried, miscarrying, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, nonremunerative, nugacious, nugatory, of no effect, of no force, otiose, pointless, profitless, rewardless, sine prole, sterile, stickit, stillborn, successless, sucked dry, teemless, thwarted, unavailable, unavailing, uncultivated, unfertile, unfortunate, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprofitable, unprolific, unremunerative, unrewarding, unsown, unsuccessful, untilled, useless, vain, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue, worthless
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