fruitless
adjective/ˈfruːtləs/
/ˈfruːtləs/
- producing no useful results synonym unproductive
- a fruitless attempt/search
- Our efforts to persuade her proved fruitless.
Extra Examples- All the signs were that this was going to be a fruitless exercise.
- He abandoned his fruitless attempts to get his poems published.
- He returned home after weeks of fruitless negotiations.
- They were three weeks into an apparently fruitless investigation.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- seem
- …
- completely
- utterly
- largely
- …
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