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 →

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 →
• All his fruitless wanderings took years. tree →
• Her fruitless wait ended when night fell. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.