fruitless

Word family

fruit·less /ˈfruːtləs/ adjectiveadj

FAILfailing to achieve what was wanted, especially after a lot of effort 无成效的，无结果的 OPP fruitful

fruitless attempt/exercise

a fruitless attempt to settle the dispute

解决争端的徒劳尝试

So far, their search has been fruitless.

到目前为止，他们的搜寻工作毫无结果。

—fruitlessly adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

fruitless• Their attempt to settle the dispute by peaceful negotiations proved fruitless.• And why has the determined search for alternatives proved so fruitless?• But all attempts to isolate and identify viruses from infected tissue proved fruitless.• Oldham's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding.• After weeks of fruitless argument they finally agreed to go their separate ways.• The result is a crippling and ever-growing burden of fruitless debt.• Program evaluation is commonly thought of as a dry, fruitless endeavor, extolled in theory but ignored in practice.• I spent the next three hours in a fruitless search of her room.• Rescue efforts have been called off after three days of fruitless searching.• When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless, the building began to be demolished around their heads.• These discussions proved fruitless, with each side blaming the other for the failure to resolve the growing crisis.

fruitless attempt/exercise• The demonstrators denounced the economic summit as a futile and fruitless exercise.• Yet all the signs were that this was going to be a fruitless exercise.• This week, be ready for irritating news and yet another fruitless attempt at communication.

Chinese

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Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 13696 COCA: 15518

fruitless

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB

VERBS

➤be, prove, seem無用；證明無用；似乎徒勞

ADVERB

➤completely, utterly完全／徹底白費力氣

▸➤largely在很大程度上徒勞

▸➤apparently顯然徒勞

➤ultimately無果而終

TOEFL BNC: 13696 COCA: 15518

fruitless adj.
⇨ useless

TOEFL BNC: 13696 COCA: 15518

fruitless

Unsuccessful: failed, abortive, fruitless...

Failure: fail, fiasco, debacle...