fruitlessness

fruitlessness
noun see fruitless

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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  • fruitlessness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition or quality of being useless or ineffective: bootlessness, futility, unavailingness, unprofitableness, uselessness, vainness, vanity. See THRIVE, USED …   English dictionary for students

  • fruitlessness — n. barrenness, inability to produce (fruit, offspring, results, etc.); lack of productivity …   English contemporary dictionary

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  • fruitlessness — See: fruitless …   English dictionary

  • fruitlessness — noun 1. a lack of creative imagination • Hypernyms: ↑uncreativeness 2. the quality of yielding nothing of value • Syn: ↑aridity, ↑barrenness • Ant: ↑fruitfulness …   Useful english dictionary

  • aridity — noun 1. the quality of yielding nothing of value (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑fruitlessness, ↑barrenness • Ant: ↑fruitfulness (for: ↑fruitlessness) • …   Useful english dictionary

  • barrenness — noun 1. the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children • Derivationally related forms: ↑barren • Hypernyms: ↑sterility, ↑infertility 2. the quality of yielding nothing of value • Syn: ↑fruitlessnes …   Useful english dictionary

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