Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
not fruitful;
not conducive to abundant production;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unfruitful \Un*fruit"ful\, a.
Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile;
barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful
soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly,
adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unfruitful
adj 1: not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production [ant:
fruitful]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "unfruitful":
acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, desert, desolate,
drained, dried-up, dry, effete, exhausted, fallow, fruitless,
gaunt, gelded, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile,
issueless, jejune, leached, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing,
nonproductive, nonprolific, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry,
teemless, uncultivated, unfertile, unplowed, unproductive,
unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted,
without issue