fruitless

Modifying Another Word

• ultimately: Togo meanwhile will reflect on what might have been after an energetic and vibrant but ultimately fruitless display.
• seemingly: Should his namesake continue his seemingly fruitless 'music ' 'career ' ?
• equally: Looking for the true meaning of texts is equally fruitless.
• largely: Republican efforts to win black voters have proven largely fruitless.
• rather: The first account deals with the rather fruitless last pushing trip of 1980, on which the club tackle ran out.
• often: The same pattern of frenetic, but often fruitless, activity is seen in the public services.

Infinitive complement

• debate: My own view is that such claims of primacy are misleading, and that it is fruitless to debate which aspect is primary.
• try: Your Bible has been Corrupted It is fruitless to try sharing the Gospel with a Muslim who thinks the Bible has been corrupted.

Modifies a noun

• quest: With breeding time limited, hummingbirds appear reluctant to waste time with fruitless quests for food.
• endeavor: So I'd not read up on the route beforehand - an omission that cost me 6 hours of fruitless endeavor.
• attempt: Their time together is spent in fruitless attempts to recapture lost youth.
• pursuit: Learn when to give up: don't spend forever on a fruitless pursuit.
• search: The fruitless search for a cause is deeply worrying.
• negotiation: These fruitless negotiations had taken the better part of a year.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Use of the system restore facility also proved fruitless.
• remain: Even appeals to the command center in the Palestine Hotel remained fruitless.
• seem: I have empathy for him, but it seems fruitless.
• render: They have rendered fruitless the most serious work of the present House of Commons.
• appear: Nothing has appeared on radar on a six mile sweep and a search of the harbor has also appeared fruitless.
• make: Their coming is made fruitless by the wandering of their hearts; they have experience of the power of Satan, not of Christ.