fruitless

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

unproductive of success
- "a fruitless search"

Adj

Bearing no fruit; barren.
Unproductive, useless.
Of a person: unable to have children; barren, infertile.
Of a diet, etc.: without fruit.

Origin / Etymology

Inherited from Middle English fruytles; equivalent to fruit + -less. Compare Middle English withouten fruyt (“fruitless”, literally “without fruit”).

Synonyms

bootless, fruitless, futile, gainless, idle, inane, ineffectual, inefficacious, inutile, pointless, profitless, purposeless, sleeveless, unavailing, unprofitable, unuseful, unutilizable, useless, vain, void

Antonyms

effective, efficacious, fruitful, productive, useful

Scrabble Score: 12

fruitless is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
fruitless is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fruitless is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

fruitless is a valid Words With Friends word