fruitless efforts

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• fruitless efforts — futile attempts, attempts in vain, unproductive efforts, unsuccessful efforts …   English contemporary dictionary

• fruitless — [[t]fru͟ːtləs[/t]] ADJ GRADED Fruitless actions, events, or efforts do not achieve anything at all. It was a fruitless search... Talks have so far have been fruitless. Syn: unproductive Derived words: fruitlessly ADV ADV with v Four years of… …   English dictionary

• fruitless — fruit|less [ frutləs ] adjective producing no good results, especially despite a lot of work: All their efforts to find her proved fruitless. ─ opposite FRUITFUL ╾ fruit|less|ly adverb ╾ fruit|less|ness noun uncount …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• fruitless — UK [ˈfruːtləs] / US [ˈfrutləs] adjective producing no good results, especially despite a lot of work All their efforts to find her proved fruitless. Derived words: fruitlessly adverb fruitlessness noun uncountable …   English dictionary

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• futile — futile, vain, fruitless, bootless, abortive all denote barren of result. Futile and vain parallel each other only when they imply failure to realize an immediate aim {it was equally in vain, and he soon wearied of his futile vigilance Stevenson}… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• futile — adjective Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin futilis brittle, pointless, probably from fu (akin to fundere to pour) more at found Date: circa 1555 1. serving no useful purpose ; completely ineffective < efforts to… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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