Modifying Another Word

• rather: The media have carried a good deal of rather unfruitful discussion about the meaning of the phrase " shoot-to-kill.

Modifies a noun

• work: Those passages which say that we must have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness are all overthrown.

• search: Table 5 shows the large recorded difference between the fruitful and unfruitful searches in the amount of time between first and last logged event.

• attempt: The USA made unfruitful attempts to conciliate the leaders of other Arab countries.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Also, a lot of the inquiries proved unfruitful.