Read full poem →Who cannot hate, can love not; if he grieve,
His tears are barren as the unfruitful rain
That rears no harvest from the green sea's plain,
Dictionary Entry
Not bearing fruit.
In a Sentence
“Despite going on for two hours, her search was unfruitful.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. unfruitfulworks unfruitfulsoil unfruitfultree unfruitful
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “unfruitful”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And, missing, sigh
Unfruitful, or as disbelievers die,
Thee having miss'd, I will not so revolt,
Read full poem →Of him, could you but see him as I can,
At his bewildered and unfruitful task
Of being what he was born to be -- a man.
Read full poem →Ceases not from all time to heave and groan,
Unfruitful oft, and at her happiest throe
Forms, what she forms, alone;
Read full poem →A morbid pleasure nourished, tracing here
An emblem of his own unfruitful life:
And lifting up his head, he then would gaze
Read full poem →Brought you to dumb and wintry middle-age, with grey
Unfruitful withering?--Ah, the pitiless things I say...
Read full poem →A morbid pleasure nourished, tracing here
An emblem of his own unfruitful life:
And lifting up his head, he then would gaze