Crossword-Solution: FRUITLESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fruitless | a. | Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. |
| Fruitless | a. | Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy. |
We have 45 clues for the answer “FRUITLESS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Unproductive ... or, literally, a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues | 1 answer |
| NOT bearing any fruit | 3 answers |
| ACARPOUS | 3 answers |
| infructuous | 5 answers |
| childless | 7 answers |
| To no avail | 9 answers |
| Unavailable | 16 answers |
| Fallow | 21 answers |
| seedless | 21 answers |
| unrewarded | 23 answers |
| Infertile | 25 answers |
| Unrewarding. | 25 answers |
| abortive | 26 answers |
| Devoid | 27 answers |
| Unusable | 31 answers |
| Parched | 31 answers |
| Valueless | 32 answers |
| Nonsensical | 32 answers |
| Unprofitable. | 35 answers |
| wasteful | 41 answers |
| premature | 45 answers |
| meaningless | 50 answers |
| Impotent | 52 answers |
| Arid | 53 answers |
| Unavailing | 54 answers |
| Uncultivated | 56 answers |
| Unfruitful | 57 answers |
| Barren | 63 answers |
| Unproductive | 66 answers |
| Ineffective | 70 answers |
| Temporary | 71 answers |
| Vain | 75 answers |
| Fatuous | 75 answers |
| Futile | 76 answers |
| Uneasy | 77 answers |
| Irrelevant | 77 answers |
| Ineffectual | 79 answers |
| shallow | 80 answers |
| unreasonable | 81 answers |
| unreliable | 81 answers |
| Unimpor-tant | 83 answers |
| ambiguous | 84 answers |
| Inadequate | 89 answers |
| Unsettled | 90 answers |
| Trivial | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FRUITLESS (5)
Serpent, we might have spar’d our coming hither, Fruitless to me, though Fruit be here to excess, The credit of whose vertue rest with thee, Wondrous indeed, if cause of such effects.
After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only discover the thief who had stolen the Calf, he would offer a lamb in sacrifice to Hermes, Pan, and the Guardian Deities of the forest.
After a fruitless struggle to get aboard a North-Western train at Chalk Farm—the engines of the trains that had loaded in the goods yard there _ploughed_ through shrieking people, and a dozen stalwart men fought to keep the crowd from crushing the driver against his furnace—my brother emerged upon the Chalk Farm road, dodged across through a hurrying swarm of vehicles, and had the luck to be foremost in the sack of a cycle shop.
Out among the sand hills she could forget the “new room” which was the scene of wearing and fruitless labor.
The hours that I had already lost might seal the fate of the incomparable Dejah Thoris were she not already dead—to sacrifice other hours, and maybe days in a fruitless exploration of another blind lead would unquestionably prove fatal.
Quotes with FRUITLESS (3)
How would your life be different if…You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.
The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists.
Now he haunts me seldom: some fierce umbilical is broken, I live with my own fragile hopes and sudden rising despair. Now I do not weep for my sins; I have learned to love them And to know that they are the wounds that make love real. His face illudes me; his voice, with its pity, does not ring in my ear. His maxims memorized in boyhood do not make fruitless and pointless my experience. I walk alone, but not so terrified as when he held my hand. I do not splash in the blood o…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2002–2019).