fruitless
adjective
useless; unproductive; without results or success.
fruitlessness
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a word derived from
fruitless.
Example Sentences
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Something in him wanted to add to an international conversation about war’s fruitlessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
In Kathleen Parker’s Sept. 1 op-ed on the fruitlessness of war, “Two different wars; one haunting question,” she noted the respective number of American service members lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan: 58,000 to 2,352.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021
The apparent fruitlessness of the Central Office’s expeditions has not escaped scrutiny in the German press.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2017
The fruitlessness of endlessly fine-tuning your self-image—of frantically trying to echolocate your personhood against someone else’s story, real or fictional—is baked into every episode of the show.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2017
This representation of the fruitlessness of all pedagogical efforts engenders an indifference towards it which would leave, as a result, only a sort of vegetation of individuality growing at hap-hazard.—
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
