- fruitlessness
- noun see fruitless
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
fruitlessness
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fruitlessness — fruitless ► ADJECTIVE 1) failing to achieve the desired results; unproductive. 2) not producing fruit. DERIVATIVES fruitlessly adverb fruitlessness noun … English terms dictionary
fruitlessness — See fruitlessly. * * * … Universalium
fruitlessness — noun The quality of being fruitless … Wiktionary
fruitlessness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition or quality of being useless or ineffective: bootlessness, futility, unavailingness, unprofitableness, uselessness, vainness, vanity. See THRIVE, USED … English dictionary for students
fruitlessness — n. barrenness, inability to produce (fruit, offspring, results, etc.); lack of productivity … English contemporary dictionary
fruitlessness — fruit·less·ness … English syllables
fruitlessness — See: fruitless … English dictionary
fruitlessness — noun 1. a lack of creative imagination • Hypernyms: ↑uncreativeness 2. the quality of yielding nothing of value • Syn: ↑aridity, ↑barrenness • Ant: ↑fruitfulness … Useful english dictionary
aridity — noun 1. the quality of yielding nothing of value (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑fruitlessness, ↑barrenness • Ant: ↑fruitfulness (for: ↑fruitlessness) • … Useful english dictionary
barrenness — noun 1. the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children • Derivationally related forms: ↑barren • Hypernyms: ↑sterility, ↑infertility 2. the quality of yielding nothing of value • Syn: ↑fruitlessnes … Useful english dictionary
