What is another word for fruitless?
Synonyms for fruitless
ˈfrut lɪsfruit·less
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
fruitless
Vain (Latin vanus, empty) keeps the etymological idea through all changes of meaning; a vain endeavor is empty of result, or of adequate power to produce a result, a vain pretension is empty or destitute of support, a vain person has a conceit that is empty or destitute of adequate cause or reason. That which is bootless, fruitless, or profitless fails to accomplish any valuable result; that which is abortive, ineffectual, or unavailing fails to accomplish a result that it was, or was supposed to be, adapted to accomplish. That which is useless, futile, or vain is inherently incapable of accomplishing a specified result. Useless, in the widest sense, signifies not of use for any valuable purpose, and is thus closely similar to valueless and worthless. Fruitless is more final than ineffectual, as applying to the sum or harvest of endeavor. That which is useless lacks actual fitness for a purpose; that which is vain lacks imaginable fitness. Compare VACANT; OSTENTATION; PRIDE.
Compare synonyms for UTILITY.
Synonyms:
abortive, baseless, bootless, deceitful, delusive, empty, futile, idle, inconstant, ineffectual, nugatory, null, profitless, shadowy, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unimportant, unprofitable, unreal, unsatisfying, unserviceable, unsubstantial, useless, vain, vapid, visionary, worthlessAntonyms:
adequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, expedient, potent, powerful, profitable, real, serviceable, solid, sound, substantial, sufficient, useful, valid, valuable, worthy
Princeton's WordNet
bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vainadjective
unproductive of success
"a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
Synonyms:
unavailing, otiose, self-conceited, egotistic, vain, conceited, swollen-headed, futile, swollen, bootless, ineffectual, egotistical, sleevelessAntonyms:
productive
Dictionary of English Synonymes
fruitlessadjective
Synonyms:
unfruitful, unproductive, barren, sterile, unprolific, unfertile, infecund, addle, ACARPOUSfruitlessadjective
Synonyms:
useless, unavailing, bootless, profitless, ineffectual, unprofitable, vain, idle, futile, abortive, without avail
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
fruitlessadjective
Synonyms:
unfruitful, infertile, infecund, acarpous, barren, unavailing, useless, vain
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "fruitless":
sterile, unsuccessful, futile, vain, useless, unproductive, no-win, pointless
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2578 | null | |
#2964 | empty | |
#9013 | idle | |
#10226 | useless | |
#12556 | trivial | |
#13230 | unreal | |
#15690 | vain | |
#17103 | unsuccessful | |
#17502 | sterile | |
#18270 | pointless | |
#19590 | visionary | |
#20769 | worthless | |
#21156 | swollen | |
#22525 | sleeveless | |
#26975 | futile | |
#32026 | unimportant | |
#38689 | shadowy | |
#48116 | fruitless | |
#48348 | unproductive | |
#55524 | deceitful | |
#55539 | unprofitable | |
#60134 | baseless | |
#61666 | ineffectual | |
#64373 | egotistical | |
#67211 | conceited | |
#69037 | trifling | |
#72180 | abortive | |
#90731 | unsatisfying | |
#94014 | vapid | |
#109464 | unavailing | |
#131299 | unserviceable | |
#146779 | inconstant | |
#203636 | delusive | |
#236805 | egotistic | |
#244598 | unsubstantial | |
#245515 | nugatory | |
#291737 | profitless |
How to use fruitless in a sentence?
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
But I do think that hope without action is fruitless, and we have to, for all of our leaders, continue to be vocal and continue to be constituents that speak up and show up. If there is no political cost often for these candidates and for people who get into office and become our representatives, they don't feel any pressure to do anything.
I am not really certain that it has been thought out. I hope it will be. I hope all my concerns are fruitless.
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
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