Yielding no profit or advantage; producing no effect or result; inefficacious, ineffectual, unprofitable, useless; empty, idle, vain.

figurative. = unfruitful, adj. 2. Now rare.

= unfructuous, adj.

figurative. Not productive of good results; unprofitable, unremunerative.

Unproductive of results; fruitless, unprofitable.

figurative. Void of result, unsuccessful, fruitless, nugatory; amounting to or producing nothing.

Without effect, fruitless.

Without result or consequence. Cf. issue, n. 9. Obsolete.

Unproductive of good results; fruitless.

Mentally or spiritually barren. Also, unproductive of results; fruitless; barren in or of (something sought or desired).

Abounding in thorn-bearing or prickly plants; overgrown with thorns or brambles. Also figurative.

With of. That does not produce or give rise to something specified.

Not producing fruit, unfruitful, unprofitable; = infructuous, adj.

Without result; ineffectual.

Having no result.

Having no result.

Not procreant (literal and figurative); infertile, unproductive, barren.