Synonyms for unfruitful
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
fruitless, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, barren, poor, sterile, infertile, childless, effete, still-born, acarpous, infecund, unfertile, unprolific, ineffectual, abortive, infructuous dated IN
Definitions
- adj. 1
Not bearing fruit.
Despite going on for two hours, her search was unfruitful.
Example sentences
- unsuccessful The attempts were for the most part unsuccessful.
- unproductive The meeting ended up being futile and unproductive.
- fruitless After three fruitless attempts, he tried one last time.
- unprofitable No one ever said smut was unprofitable.
- sterile He has no descendants, he's likely sterile.
- barren Algeria's Sahara is barren and sparsely populated.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| unfruitful | steady | |
| unsuccessful | falling | |
| unproductive | steady | |
| fruitless | steady | |
| unprofitable | falling | |
| sterile | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- poor1
- 6 letters
- barren2, effete2
- 7 letters
- sterile2
- 8 letters
- abortive3, acarpous, infecund
- 9 letters
- childless2, fruitless2, infertile3, unfertile
- 10 letters
- unprolific
- 11 letters
- ineffectual5, infructuous
- 12 letters
- unsuccessful4, unproductive4, unprofitable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (barren2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- infructueux
- Italiano
- infruttuoso
- Español
- infructuoso
- Deutsch
- fruchtlos