fruitless

Adjective Satellite

• unproductive of success
  • "a fruitless search"

Adj

• Bearing no fruit; barren.
• Unproductive, useless.
• Of a person: unable to have children; barren, infertile.
• Of a diet, etc.: without fruit.

Examples

• The fruitless woman desperately wanted to have children.
• The unskilled man’s attempt at fixing his car engine was fruitless.

Synonyms

bootless, futile, sleeveless, vain, fruitless, gainless, idle, inane, ineffectual, inefficacious, inutile, pointless, profitless, purposeless, unavailing, unprofitable, unuseful, unutilizable, useless, void

Antonyms

effective, efficacious, fruitful, productive, useful