unfruitful

English

Etymology

un- +‎ fruitful

Adjective

unfruitful (comparative more unfruitful, superlative most unfruitful)

(chiefly figuratively) Not bearing fruit.
Despite going on for two hours, her search was unfruitful.

Antonyms

fruitful

Translations

Not bearing fruit

Esperanto: malfruktodona
Estonian: viljatu, tulutu
French: infructueux (fr)
German: unfruchtbar (de), fruchtlos (de)
Greek: άκαρπος (el) (ákarpos)
Ido: nefruktifanta
Italian: infruttifero (it), inutile (it), esito negativo
Latin: infructuōsus

Manx: neuvessoil
Maori: tūpā, tīpā, huakore, huhuakore, kikokore (used figuratively)
Polish: bezowocny (pl)
Portuguese: infrutífero (pt)
Romanian: infructuos (ro), neroditor (ro), nerodnic, sterp (ro), steril (ro)
Russian: беспло́дный (ru) (besplódnyj)
Spanish: infructuoso (es)

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