fruitless
adjEtymology
Inherited from Middle English fruytles; equivalent to fruit + -less. Compare Middle English withouten fruyt (“fruitless”, literally “without fruit”).
- inherited from fruytles
Definitions
Bearing no fruit
Bearing no fruit; barren.
Unproductive, useless.
- The unskilled man’s attempt at fixing his car engine was fruitless.
- Here alſo ſprong that goodly golden fruit, / With which Acontius got his louer trew, / Whom he had long time ſought with fruitleſſe ſuit; […]
Of a person
Of a person: unable to have children; barren, infertile.
- The fruitless woman desperately wanted to have children.
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Of a diet, etc.
Of a diet, etc.: without fruit.
- The first fruits of the season were eagerly sought after, and everybody was thankful that once more dread winter with its unvarying monotony of fruitless meals was a thing of the past.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at fruitless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at fruitless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at fruitless
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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