unfruitful

English

Etymology

From Middle English unfruytful; equivalent to un- +‎ fruitful.

Adjective

unfruitful (comparative more unfruitful, superlative most unfruitful)

(chiefly figurative) Not bearing fruit.
Despite going on for two hours, her search was unfruitful.

Antonyms

fruitful

Translations

Not bearing fruit

Bulgarian: неплодороден (bg) (neplodoroden)
Esperanto: malfruktodona
Estonian: viljatu, tulutu
French: infructueux (fr)
German: unfruchtbar (de), fruchtlos (de)
Gothic: 𐌰𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃 (akranalaus)
Greek: άκαρπος (el) (ákarpos)
Ido: nefruktifanta
Italian: infruttifero (it), inutile (it), esito negativo
Latin: infructuōsus
Manx: neuvessoil
Maori: tūpā, tīpā, huakore, huhuakore, kikokore (used figuratively)
Polish: bezowocny (pl)
Portuguese: infrutífero (pt)
Romanian: infructuos (ro), neroditor (ro), nerodnic, sterp (ro), steril (ro)
Russian: беспло́дный (ru) (besplódnyj)
Spanish: infructuoso (es)

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