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unfruitful

unfruitful adjective: not bearing fruit.

Adjective

unfruitful (comparative more unfruitful, superlative most unfruitful)

  1. (figuratively) Not bearing fruit.
    • Despite going on for two hours, her search was unfruitful.

Antonyms of unfruitful

Forms of unfruitful

comparativemore unfruitful
superlativemost unfruitful

Origin of unfruitful

From Middle English unfruytful; equivalent to un- + fruitful.

Words formed from unfruitful

Questions about unfruitful

What does unfruitful mean?
Unfruitful means not bearing fruit.
What part of speech is unfruitful?
Unfruitful is an adjective.

Words near unfruitful in the dictionary

  1. unfructuous
  2. unfructuously
  3. unfrugal
  4. unfrugally
  5. unfruited
  6. unfruitful
  7. unfruitfullness
  8. unfruitfully
  9. unfruitfulness
  10. unfruiting
  11. unfruity

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