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  • 21fruitless effort — index failure (lack of success) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 22fruitless trial — index mistrial Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 23Fruitless (gene) — The fruitless gene ( fru ) is a Drosophila melanogaster gene that encodes several variants of a putative transcription factor protein. Normal fruitless function is required for proper development of several anatomical structures necessary for… …

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  • 24fruitless adj — If you re looking for oranges on an apple tree you will have a fruitless search …

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  • 25fruitless — Synonyms and related words: abortive, acarpous, arid, barren, bootless, celibate, childless, counterproductive, desert, desolate, drained, dried up, dry, effete, empty, etiolated, exhausted, failed, failing, fallow, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless,… …

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  • 26fruitless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unavailing, unprofitable, vain; barren. See uselessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. futile, vain, unprofitable, empty; see futile 1 . See Synonym Study at futile . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a …

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  • 27fruitless — fruit·less || fruːtlɪs adj. without fruit; unproductive; unsuccessful; unfertile; barren …

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  • 28fruitless — adjective 1》 failing to achieve the desired results; unproductive. 2》 not producing fruit. Derivatives fruitlessly adverb fruitlessness noun …

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  • 29fruitless — a. 1. Unfruitful, unproductive, barren, sterile, unprolific, unfertile, infecund, acarpous. 2. Useless, unavailing, bootless, profitless, ineffectual, unprofitable, barren, vain, idle, futile, abortive, without avail …

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  • 30fruitless — adj 1. futile, vain, idle, unavailing, abortive, bootless, worthless, useless; ineffectual, ineffective, inefficacious; unproductive, unyielding, unprofitable, profitless, unremunerative, unrewarding, unpaying, gainless; unsuccessful, Inf. no go …

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