0 the quality of being unsuccessful or producing nothing of value:
The failure of the war illustrates the fruitlessness of military might alone.
I didn't want to point out to her the fruitlessness of her love.
He is dispirited by the apparent fruitlessness of his efforts.
But the very indeterminacy of the categories ' gentleman ' and ' lady ' suggests the fruitlessness of trying to align politeness with neat social boundaries in society.
Perhaps that feeling of fruitlessness, and even of masquerade, which we sometimes feel will disappear.
It falls into that immense dismal category of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind.
Songlian, already in agony due to the fruitlessness of her life, witnesses the entire episode and is emotionally traumatized.
Eventually, as the wolf complains of the fruitlessness of their quest, they arrive at a draw-well with buckets on each end of a rope.
