unfruitful efforts

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• unfruitful — unfruitfully, adv. unfruitfulness, n. /un frooht feuhl/, adj. 1. not providing satisfaction; unprofitable: unfruitful efforts. 2. not producing offspring; sterile: an unfruitful marriage. 3. not yielding good crops; infertile: unfruitful acres. 4 …   Universalium

• sterile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. barren, unproductive, unfruitful, unfertile; aseptic, germ free. See uselessness, cleanness.Ant., fertile, fruitful, unsterile. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Incapable of producing young] Syn.… …   English dictionary for students

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• sterile — sterile, barren, impotent, unfruitful, infertile mean not having or not manifesting the power to produce offspring or to bear literal or figurative fruit. Sterile, opposed to fertile, in its basic application to living things implies an inability …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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