What are some opposite words for fruitless?
Antonyms for fruitless
ˈfrut lɪsfruit·less
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term fruitless.
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.
Antonyms:
adequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, expedient, potent, powerful, profitable, real, serviceable, solid, sound, substantial, sufficient, useful, valid, valuable, worthySynonyms:
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, worthless
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"
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productiveSynonyms:
unavailing, otiose, self-conceited, egotistic, vain, conceited, swollen-headed, futile, swollen, bootless, ineffectual, egotistical, sleeveless
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
fruitlessadjective
Synonyms:
unfruitful, infertile, infecund, acarpous, barren, unavailing, useless, vain
How to use fruitless in a sentence?
In 2013, my office sued Donald Trump for swindling thousands of innocent Americans out of millions of dollars through a scheme known at Trump University, donald Trump fought us every step of the way, filing baseless charges and fruitless appeals and refusing to settle for even modest amounts of compensation for the victims of his phony university. Today, that all changes.
It is fruitless to argue about religion with someone in a cult—the same is true with politics.
Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
Desiring something that you cannot possess is but a fruitless voyage.
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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#3614 | sufficient | |
#4080 | valuable | |
#4434 | substantial | |
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#7883 | beneficial | |
#7988 | productive | |
#8085 | worthy | |
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#10437 | profitable | |
#15642 | potent | |
#23212 | advantageous | |
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