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    [Adjective]  | "fruit*less" | \ ˈfrüt-ləs \


    1: unsuccessful

    2: lacking or not bearing fruit


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English fruytles, frutles, from fruyt, frut {see: |fruit:1|fruit:1} + -les {see: |-less|-less};

    [Adjective]  | "fruitless" 


    1: producing no results;


      * e.g., " ... this argument is totally fruitless, as neither of us will change our position "





    2: not able to produce fruit or offspring;


      * e.g., " ... a stand of blighted, fruitless trees "





     [ "fruitless" ]

    1:  Producing no fruit.

      * e.g.,  ... That was a fruitless homework assignment.  


     [ "fruitless" ]

    2:  Unproductive of success

      * e.g.,  ... Tammy is fruitless. 


     [ "fruitless" ]

    3:  Lame, weak and ineffectual; unsatisfactory

     [ "Fruitless Grind" ]

    1: When a group of guys go out to pick up chicks only to come home empty handed.

      * e.g.,  ... How was the club last night? Did you meet any hoes? Nah, we were on the fruitless grind. 

     [ "Fruitless Effort" ]

    1: Having a flavoured condom, but no one to use it with.

      * e.g.,  ... I broke up with my girlfriend recently, but I still have a flavoured condom. Such a Fruitless Effort... 

     [ "Fruitless Pursuit" ]

    1: Origin: Back in the day, Quakers would go out and pursue fruit.

      * e.g.,  ... What was the point of that fruitless pursuit! 

     [ "fruitless flowering tree" ]

    1: when you have to swear about someone/something when it’s an inappropriate time and/or place, use this term.

      * e.g.,  ... Alex is being such a fruitless flowering tree! 

     [ "fruitless garden" ]

    1: A community (typically high school or college) where there is a surplus of gay women, and straight people, but little to no gay men. It is so barren of all fruits, that the few homosexual males are left with little dating options.

      * e.g.,  ... Brittney: "Why are all the cute men gay?" 

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