unfruitful

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

unfruitful (comparative more unfruitful, superlative most unfruitful)

1. (chiefly figuratively) 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)