[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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"lessly, adv. -- fruit"lnessness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
useless fruit"lessly fruit"lnessness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

fruitless
     adj : unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years
           after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a
           vain attempt" syn: bootless, futile, sleeveless,
            vain
see also:
bootless futile sleeveless vain 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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