English Dictionary

fruitless

/ˈfɹuːtləs/

adj

Bearing no fruit; barren. / (figuratively) Unproductive, useless. / (figuratively, archaic) Of a person: unable to have children; barren, infertile. / (rare) Of a diet, etc.: without fruit.

His efforts to find a solution were fruitless.

意味（1）

Bearing no fruit; barren.

[S]he [Rachel Carson] also warned of falls in which there was no pollination and there would be no fruit. […] The entomologist Stephen L. Buchmann and the crop ecologist Gary Paul Nabhan amplified Carson's warning in their 1996 book, The Forgotten Pollinators. They predicted fruitless falls unless our land-use patterns changed fast. But few people paid attention.

意味（2）

(figuratively) Unproductive, useless.

The unskilled man’s attempt at fixing his car engine was fruitless.

意味（3）

(figuratively, archaic) Of a person: unable to have children; barren, infertile.

The fruitless woman desperately wanted to have children.

意味（4）

(rare) Of a diet, etc.: without fruit.

The first fruits of the season were eagerly sought after, and everybody was thankful that once more dread winter with its unvarying monotony of fruitless meals was a thing of the past.