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# fruitless

adjective (fruitless, more fruitless, most fruitless)

«fruitless» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruitless/#x1)
- All his fruitless wanderings took years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruitless/#x2)
- Her fruitless wait ended when night fell. [tree →](https://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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fruitless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fruitless/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fruitless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fruitless.html) on Mova free.