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unfruitful
CIDE DICTIONARY
unfruitful, a.
Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unfruitful, adj.
1 not producing good results, unprofitable.
2 not producing fruit or crops.
1 not producing good results, unprofitable.
2 not producing fruit or crops.
Derivative
unfruitfully adv. unfruitfulness n.
THESAURUS
unfruitful
acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, effete, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, leached, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfertile, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issueROGET THESAURUS
unfruitful
Unproductiveness
N unproductiveness, infertility, sterility, infecundity, masturbation, impotence, unprofitableness, waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness, unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, sine prole, fallow, teemless, issueless, fruitless, unprofitable, null and void, of no effect.For further exploring for "unfruitful" in Webster Dictionary Online
