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# fruitless

«fruitless» in Mova's school dictionary: **producing no result; it fails to find or gain anything** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (fruitless, more fruitless, most fruitless)

### meaning for a pupil

Fruitless means producing no result; it fails to find or gain anything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruitless/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a search or a try that gets nothing; in tales, a fruitless search that finds no one

### examples

- They made a fruitless search for the lost ring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruitless/#x1)
- All his fruitless wanderings took years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruitless/#x2)
- Her fruitless wait ended when night fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruitless/#x3)

### note

a fruitless search finds nothing, so the count of things found is 0

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fruitless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruitless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.