† frustraneousadj.
Obsolete.
Vain, useless, ineffectual, unprofitable.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective]
idlec825
unnuteOE
bricklec1225
tooma1250
unnaita1250
vaina1300
waste1303
overvoida1382
voida1382
superfluec1384
daylessa1387
unbehovely1390
unprofitablea1398
unbehoveful1429
wastefulc1450
idleful1483
fruster1488
vainful1509
frustrate?a1513
superfluousa1533
addle1534
lost1535
fittle1552
futilea1575
nugatory1605
futilous1607
shiftless1613
tympanous1625
emptya1628
frustraneousa1643
pointless1673
futilitous1765
otiose1795
stultificatory1931
a1643 J. Shute Judgem. & Mercy (1645) 4 Though hee saw how frustranious [sic] and empty all his intendments and purposes were.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης vi. 53 A most insufficient, and frustraneous meanes.
1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 74 Frustaneous and vain desires.
1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague 25 This, if frustraneous, is fortified with Diascord. or Laud. Op.
a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 317 Their real Substance to evade, And have their Force frustraneous made.
1780 J. Howie in M. Shields Faithful Contendings Pref. 10 It were frustraneous to insist upon a portrait of that here.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adverb] > unavailingly
bootless1423
ineffectuallyc1610
bootlessly1612
frustrately1632
uneffectually1680
frustraneously1689
unavailingly1748
unavailably1860
1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation 2 From which the Patient day by day frustraneously expecting relief.
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