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单词 fruitless
释义
fruitless
adjective
uk
/ˈfruːt.ləs/us
/ˈfruːt.ləs/
If anactionorattemptto do something is fruitless, it isunsuccessfulorproducesnothing ofvalue:
无成果的；无效的
Alldiplomaticattemptsat apeacefulsolutionto thecrisishave been fruitless.所有试图和平解决这场危机的外交努力都毫无成效。
Synonyms
futile
vain
Opposite
fruitful
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
not producing a desired result
  • unsuccessfulOur attempts to change the law were unsuccessful.
  • failedThe company went bankrupt pouring money into yet another failed product.
  • badSales have been really bad this quarter.
  • fruitlessAll our pleas that she remain in university were fruitless - she left anyway.
  • unfruitfulThe negotiations were unfruitful.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Useless and futile
  • a mug's gameidiom
  • adrift
  • aimless
  • aimlessly
  • aimlessness
  • airy-fairy
  • frivolous
  • frivolousness
  • fruitlessly
  • fruitlessness
  • futile
  • motiveless
  • negate
  • negation
  • no goodidiom
  • unfruitful
  • unrealistic
  • unrealistically
  • untilyou areblue in the faceidiom
  • unviability
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Unsuccessful (people and things)

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fruitlessly
fruitlessness
(Definition offruitlessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

fruitless| American Dictionary

fruitless
adjective
us
/ˈfrut·ləs/
unsuccessfulor notproductive:
Aftermonthsof fruitlessnegotiationswithteamowners, thecitywithdrewitsoffertobuilda newstadium.
(Definition offruitlessfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffruitless

fruitless
The writer frankly acknowledges that each presents a very different case and that looking for connections between these women as playwrights is afruitlessexercise.
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But these numbers are so small that it isfruitlessto calculate percentages or to try to identify trends.
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Any renewal of the alliance would most likely have been afruitlessattempt to stop the haemorrhaging.
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The search for a body of theory or perspective which we can import into prehistoric archaeology and thereby solve our problems isfruitless.
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As a political philosophy, his special brand of positivism wasfruitless, and open to obvious and grave objections.
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This can lead to hours offruitlesspractising where the body is fully occupied in the activity but the brain is not engaged at all.
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On the other hand, it seemsfruitlessto look for semantic homogeneity among determiners of different classes.
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This is by no means to say that discussions about research and interdisciplinarity arefruitless.
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Furthermore, the mostlyfruitlessattempts to identify emblem glyphs have been made more difficult by fewer and less well-understood hieroglyphic texts.
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After four years offruitlessefforts, the villagers built tents at the industrial park's entrance in 2005.
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All our efforts to join the two theorems to one for arbitrary rates have so far beenfruitless.
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Individuals may participate in apparentlyfruitlessgroup activity as it is the participation that is the reward rather than the outcome.
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In several cases these reports led tofruitlesssearches.
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And all too often the breaking provesfruitless.
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Attempts to have the patient mentally control unit rhythms which he could hear over a loudspeaker werefruitless.
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