| 单词 | fruitless |
| 释义 | fruitless (once / 894 pages) adj Fruitless things are futile or pointless. If your search for your missing car keys is fruitless, you don't find them no matter how hard you look. You can call a fruitless search a wild goose chase — despite your efforts, you're unsuccessful. If you spend a fruitless afternoon applying for jobs, you end up without a single offer, and if your attempt to get your dog and cat to be pals is fruitless, they end up hating each other just as much as they ever did. The adjective fruitless comes from the sense of "unproductive" or "without profit," like a fruit tree that doesn't grow any fruit. WORD FAMILYfruitless: fruitlessly, fruitlessness+/fruit: fruitage, fruited, fruiterer, fruitful, fruiting, fruitless, fruitlet, fruits, fruity/fruitage: fruitages/fruiterer: fruiterers/fruitful: fruitfuler, fruitfulest, fruitfully, fruitfulness, unfruitful/fruitlet: fruitlets/fruity: fruitier, fruitiest, fruitily/unfruitful: unfruitfully USAGE EXAMPLESEarly in Fernyhough’s career, his mentors told him that studying inner speech would be fruitless. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) She was hopeful, but well aware that our search might prove fruitless. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) Russia no longer seriously negotiates with Secretary of State John F. Kerry, calling those discussions “fruitless get-togethers” and preferring to deal with Turkey instead. Washington Post(Dec 18, 2016) adj unproductive of success a fruitless search Syn bootless, futile, sleeveless, vain unproductive not producing or capable of producing |
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