fruitlesse

Adjective

fruitless (comparative more fruitless, superlative most fruitless)

1. Bearing no fruit; barren.
   • [S]he [Rachel Carson] also warned of falls in which "there was no pollination and there would be no fruit." […] The entomologist Stephen L. Buchmann and the crop ecologist Gary Paul Nabhan amplified Carson's warning in their 1996 book, The Forgotten Pollinators. They predicted fruitless falls...2008, Rowan Jacobsen, “Breakfast in America”, in Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, page 20

   Antonyms:

   fruitful

2. (figuratively) Unproductive, useless.
   • The unskilled man’s attempt at fixing his car engine was fruitless.

   Synonyms:

   bootless, barren, futile, sterile, gainless, idle, dry, ineffectual, inefficacious, inutile

   Antonyms:

   fruitful, effective, efficacious, productive, useful

3. (archaic, figuratively) Of a person: unable to have children; barren, infertile.
   • The fruitless woman desperately wanted to have children.
4. (rare) Of a diet, etc.: without fruit.
   • The first fruits of the season were eagerly sought after, and everybody was thankful that once more dread winter with its unvarying monotony of fruitless meals was a thing of the past.1923, The Homestead, Bloemfontein: The Proprietors, →OCLC, page 33, column 1