unfruitful
not providing satisfaction; unprofitable: unfruitful efforts.
not producing offspring; sterile: an unfruitful marriage.
not yielding good crops; infertile: unfruitful acres.
not bearing fruit; fruitless; barren: an unfruitful tree.
Origin of unfruitful
1Other words for unfruitful
Other words from unfruitful
- un·fruit·ful·ly, adverb
- un·fruit·ful·ness, noun
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How to use unfruitful in a sentence
Doughty, too, was England, in its game against Italy, although unfruitfully so.
When July passed unfruitfully even our sense of humor was seriously endangered.
Murder in Any Degree | Owen JohnsonNow we see that all that arrives to perfection cannot unfruitfully remain in itself, but begets and produces.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 | Plotinos (Plotinus)It chanced that as I went down the hill these last words of my friend the drover echoed not unfruitfully in my head.
St. Ives | Robert Louis Stevenson
British Dictionary definitions for unfruitful
/ (ʌnˈfruːtfʊl) /
barren, unproductive, or unprofitable
failing to produce or develop into fruit
Derived forms of unfruitful
- unfruitfully, adverb
- unfruitfulness, noun
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