Unfruitful vs Futile - What's the difference?
unfruitful | futile | Related terms |
Of or pertaining to not bearing fruit (usually figuratively).
Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.
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Unfruitful is a related term of futile.
As adjectives the difference between unfruitful and futile
is that unfruitful is of or pertaining to not bearing fruit (usually figuratively) while futile is incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.unfruitful
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Despite spending two hours looking, her search was unfruitful .
Antonyms
* fruitfulfutile
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Adjective
(en adjective)Shamrock Rovers 0-4 Tottenham, passage=Goals from Steven Pienaar, Andros Townsend, Jermain Defoe and Harry Kane sealed the win, but Rubin Kazan's 1-1 draw against PAOK Salonika rendered Spurs' efforts futile .}}