producing no useful results synonym unproductive a fruitless attempt/search Our efforts to persuade her proved fruitless. opposite fruitful Oxford Collocations Dictionary verbsbe, prove, seem, … adverbcompletely, utterly, largely, … See full entryExtra examples All the signs were that this was going to be a fruitless exercise. He abandoned his fruitless attempts to get his poems published. He returned home after weeks of fruitless negotiations. The search proved fruitless. They were three weeks into an apparently fruitless investigation.
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