fruitless (adj.)
- abortive
- acarpous
- arid
- barren
- bootless
- celibate
- childless
- counterproductive
- desolate
- drained
- dried-up
- dry
- effete
- empty
- etiolated
- exhausted
- failing
- fallow
- fatuous
- feckless
- foiled
- frustrated
- futile
- gaunt
- gelded
- idle
- impotent
- inadequate
- inane
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inefficacious
- infertile
- inoperative
- invalid
- jejune
- lame
- leached
- manque
- menopausal
- nonproductive
- nugatory
- otiose
- pointless
- profitless
- sterile
- stillborn
- thwarted
- unavailable
- unavailing
- uncultivated
- unfertile
- unfortunate
- unfruitful
- unplowed
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unremunerative
- unrewarding
- unsown
- unsuccessful
- untilled
- useless
- vain
- virgin
- waste
- wasted
- worthless
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding.
Our fruitless labours mourn,
And only rich in barren fame return.
