Antonyms for unfruitful:
adj. barren
adj. unprofitable
adj. not fruitful
Examples of uses:
I thought I had. Turned out to be very unfruitful.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Yet an age in which great questions were handled by great men could not be either an unfruitful or an uninteresting one.
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Title: The English Church in the Eighteenth Century, author: Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16791/16791-h/16791-h.htm
St. Paul says, "If I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful."
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Title: Fox's Book of Martyrs, author: John Foxe, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22400/22400-h/22400-h.htm
It is astonishing to see with what facility the vine thrives in a soil apparently so unfruitful.
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Title: Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests, author: J. J. von Tschudi, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26745/26745-h/26745-h.htm
The process of the fiery judgment consuming the unfruitful vine tree had already begun.
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Title: The Prophet Ezekiel, author: Arno C. Gaebelein, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36857/36857-h/36857-h.htm
The Parable of the unfruitful vine shows that the nation was good for nothing, and burning awaited the city.
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Title: The Prophet Ezekiel, author: Arno C. Gaebelein, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36857/36857-h/36857-h.htm
unfruitful branches must be cut off, fruitful ones purged—to produce more fruit—dead ones burned.
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Title: The Quiver 3/1900, author: Anonymous, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43658/43658-h/43658-h.htm
This strangely-revived acquaintance with Job Thornberry was not an unfruitful incident in the life of Endymion.
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Title: Endymion, author: Benjamin Disraeli, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7926/7926-h/7926-h.htm
On that side of the valley she was delicately unfruitful, spent with rearing the fine, thin beauty of the woods.
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Title: The Flaw in the Crystal, author: May Sinclair, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28615/28615-h/28615-h.htm
They are not different species of a genus, since in that case their hybrid descendants would remain unfruitful.
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Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II., author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25751/25751-h/25751-h.htm
