unfruitful
adjective
not providing satisfaction; unprofitable.
unfruitfulness
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a word derived from
unfruitful.
Example Sentences
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With our unfruitfulness in works after the old style, the taste for these works proportionately increases.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
Sometimes the rootstock will force to the top too much growth, which is likely to bring about unfruitfulness.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Times of apparent unfruitfulness do come, times of drought do fall upon us, but they pass, for silently, secretly God works on and on.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
He saw well the illusoriness and unfruitfulness of such a universe as Spinoza dreamed.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various
Nothing in divine or human ordinances seemed hidden from him; he even foresaw the unfruitfulness of the land many years before it came.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
