Word Meanings - UNFRUITFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNFRUITFUL)

• Sterile
• Barren
• unfruitful
• unproductive
• desert
• infertile

Related words: (words related to UNFRUITFUL)

• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• INFERTILELY
  In an infertile manner.
• DESERTLESS
  Without desert.
• BARRENLY
  Unfruitfully; unproductively.
• BARRENWORT
  An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family , having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
• DESERT
  That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great
• INFERTILE
  Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.
• DESERTLESSLY
  Undeservedly. Beau. & Fl.
• STERILE
  stiff, solid, stei^ros barren, stei^ra a cow that has not calved, 1. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year. Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for
• DESERTRIX; DESERTRICE
  A feminine deserter. Milton.
• DESERTFUL
  Meritorious. Beau. & Fl.
• BARREN
  bréhaigne; of uncertain origin; cf. Arm. brékha, markha, sterile; LL. brana a sterile mare, principally in Aquitanian and Spanish 1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- She was barren of children. Bp. Hall. 2. Not
• BARRENNESS
  The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness. A total barrenness of invention. Dryden.
• DESERTNESS
  A deserted condition. "The desertness of the country." Udall.
• DESERTION
  1. The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• OVERBARREN
  Excessively barren.