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ADJECTIVE
  1. not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production

How To Use unfruitful In A Sentence

  • For if I pray in an unknown tongue , my spirit prayer, but my understanding is unfruitful.
  • It was an ugly, unfruitful thing, in comparison to the delicate, well-kept gardens of other Mayfair houses.
  • The term, "self-sterile" is often used, but I think it is a little more exact to say self-unfruitful or self-incompatible. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
  • On the other hand all walnut, pecan, and hickory species are self-fertile and cross-fertile, but may be self-unfruitful because of dichogamy, because they may shed their pollen either before or after the stigmas of the pistillate flowers are receptive to it. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
  • This is all supposition, as no one knows what Novak told the investigators, but it is supposition that manages to tie together the mysteries of Fitzgerald's long and seemingly unfruitful investigation.
  • For if I pray in an unknown tongue , my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
  • A desperate scramble to find sponsors proved unfruitful so the organiser has reluctantly pulled the plug.
  • For when, in our representation of the Darwinian conclusions and in our own investigation, we proceed as objectively as possible, and try to avoid all systematization which is unfruitful for our task, in discussing the Darwinian theories in reference to religion, we shall have to take chiefly into consideration their relation to religion in an objective sense, and chiefly also their relation to the contents of religion; but this would make it appear that we supposed religion in a subjective sense, religiousness, to be in the first place an activity and a possession of knowledge. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
  • His first return to Elland Road in two years was a bitter and unfruitful affair.
  • It had received just one serious but unfruitful expression of interest.
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