What are some alternative words for fruitless?
Synonyms for fruitless
ˈfrut lɪs
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Princeton's WordNet
bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain(adj)
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
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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
fruitless(a.)
Synonyms:
unfruitful, unproductive, barren, sterile, unprolific, unfertile, infecund, addle, ACARPOUSfruitless(a.)
Synonyms:
useless, unavailing, bootless, profitless, ineffectual, unprofitable, vain, idle, futile, abortive, without avail
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
fruitless(a)
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?
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
I am not really certain that it has been thought out. I hope it will be. I hope all my concerns are fruitless.
Though everything inside of me wants to hate, be angry, and slip into despair I choose the route of forgiveness, grace and hope, if there is one thing I've learned from Amanda in the 10 years we were together, it's this: Choosing to let my emotions drive my decisions is recipe for a hopeless and fruitless life. Today I am deciding to love, not hate.
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.
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.
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