| 词汇 | fruitless |
| 释义 | fruitless adjective uk /ˈfruːt.ləs/ us /ˈfruːt.ləs/ If an action or attempt to do something is fruitless, it is unsuccessful or produces nothing of value: 无成果的；无效的 All diplomatic attempts at a peaceful solution to the crisis have been fruitless.所有试图和平解决这场危机的外交努力都毫无成效。 Synonyms futile vain Opposite fruitful not producing a desired result unsuccessfulOur attempts to change the law were unsuccessful. failedThe company went bankrupt pouring money into yet another failed product. badSales have been really bad this quarter. fruitlessAll our pleas that she remain in university were fruitless - she left anyway. unfruitfulThe negotiations were unfruitful. Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely futility negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory ornamental unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unviability You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Unsuccessful (people and things) Related wordsfruitlessly fruitlessness fruitless | American Dictionaryfruitless adjective us/ˈfrut·ləs/ unsuccessful or not productive: After months of fruitless negotiations with team owners, the city withdrew its offer to build a new stadium. Examples of fruitlessfruitless The writer frankly acknowledges that each presents a very different case and that looking for connections between these women as playwrights is a fruitless exercise. But these numbers are so small that it is fruitless to calculate percentages or to try to identify trends. Any renewal of the alliance would most likely have been a fruitless attempt to stop the haemorrhaging. The search for a body of theory or perspective which we can import into prehistoric archaeology and thereby solve our problems is fruitless. As a political philosophy, his special brand of positivism was fruitless, and open to obvious and grave objections. This can lead to hours of fruitless practising where the body is fully occupied in the activity but the brain is not engaged at all. On the other hand, it seems fruitless to look for semantic homogeneity among determiners of different classes. This is by no means to say that discussions about research and interdisciplinarity are fruitless. Furthermore, the mostly fruitless attempts to identify emblem glyphs have been made more difficult by fewer and less well-understood hieroglyphic texts. After four years of fruitless efforts, the villagers built tents at the industrial park's entrance in 2005. All our efforts to join the two theorems to one for arbitrary rates have so far been fruitless. Individuals may participate in apparently fruitless group activity as it is the participation that is the reward rather than the outcome. In several cases these reports led to fruitless searches. And all too often the breaking proves fruitless. Attempts to have the patient mentally control unit rhythms which he could hear over a loudspeaker were fruitless. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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