infructuose

English

Etymology

Latin infructuosus.

Adjective

infructuose (comparative more infructuose, superlative most infructuose)

1. Not yielding fruit.
2. (figuratively) unfruitful; unprofitable
   • April 1864, Boskousa, "Music of the Future" and "Anticipations" (letter to the editor) in The Musical World

     I am too irritable to listen to Wagner's music; in my opinion it is infructuose

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “infructuose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• fursecution

Latin

Adjective

īnfrūctuōse

1. vocative masculine singular of īnfrūctuōsus

References

• “infructuose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• infructuose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.