0 useless; with no results -- unyttig, resultatløs, forgjeves
a fruitless attempt.
Attempts to have the patient mentally control unit rhythms which he could hear over a loudspeaker were fruitless.
And all too often the breaking proves fruitless.
In several cases these reports led to fruitless searches.
Individuals may participate in apparently fruitless group activity as it is the participation that is the reward rather than the outcome.
All our efforts to join the two theorems to one for arbitrary rates have so far been fruitless.
After four years of fruitless efforts, the villagers built tents at the industrial park's entrance in 2005.
Furthermore, the mostly fruitless attempts to identify emblem glyphs have been made more difficult by fewer and less well-understood hieroglyphic texts.
This is by no means to say that discussions about research and interdisciplinarity are fruitless.
