What's the difference between infructuose and unfruitful?
Infructuose
Definition:
(a.) Not producing fruit; unfruitful; unprofitable.
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Unfruitful
Definition:
(a.) Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such critics are at liberty to count up the faults, if it gives them pleasure, but are certainly pursuing an unfruitful occupation in enumerating these rather than the excellences.
(2) The Swiss only narrowly voted to restrict immigration in the original 2014 referendum, with 50.3% in favour, and have been in unfruitful talks to implement the measure with the EU ever since.
(3) Although diagnostic in some cases, extensive serologic testing proved relatively unfruitful.
(4) We have the unfruitful spectacle of some of the most leftwing commentators in Britain wondering if they are being leftwing enough, or if their background even gives them the right to make an argument.
(5) Blood cultures and serological examination for infections were unfruitful.
(6) The unfruitful pursuit of a judicial remedy for the ethical and social problems that arise with relocation of the elderly continues, in part, because of a misguided belief that this distressing social phenomenon is best remedied by the courts.
(7) Among the 503 patients 491 were cured (curative rate 97.61%), however, 12 patients were unfruitful (unfruitful rate 2.39%).
(8) Mediationism is the basic tenet of those who seek the substrate of memory; for students of memory per se it is merely a metaphor, and moreover an unfruitful one, for it cannot be penetrated by the methods of psychology.
(9) In this sense, the vows cannot end up being caricatures; otherwise, for example, community life becomes hell, and chastity becomes a way of life for unfruitful bachelors.
(10) Investigation into possible infection, biochemical abnormalities and dietary indiscretion (alcohol, colza oil), were unfruitful.