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111barren — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. infertile, unprofitable, unproductive; sterile; stark, bare. See uselessness.Ant., fertile. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Incapable of producing young] Syn. sterile, impotent, infertile, childless; see …
112failure — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Nonperformance Nouns 1. failure, unsuccessfulness, nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; dead failure, abortion, miscarriage, malfunction, outage; bankruptcy (see nonpayment); labor in vain; no go; inefficacy;… …
113fruitless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unavailing, unprofitable, vain; barren. See uselessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. futile, vain, unprofitable, empty; see futile 1 . See Synonym Study at futile . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a …
114unproductive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inoperative; barren, unfertile, unprolific; arid, dry, sterile, unfruitful; fruitless, bootless; fallow; impotent, issueless; unprofitable, useless; null and void, of no effect. See uselessness,… …
115uselessness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of utility Nouns 1. uselessness, inutility; inefficacy, futility; impracticableness, im practicality; inefficiency, impotence; worthlessness, vanity, inanity, unimportance. See unskillfulness,… …
116vain — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. proud, conceited; futile, fruitless; trivial. See vanity, uselessness, unimportance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Possessing unwarranted self esteem] Syn. proud, arrogant, haughty; see egotistic 2 . 2 …
117useless — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Unserviceable] Syn. worthless, unusable, inutile, ineffectual, expendable, incompetent, of no use, ineffective, inoperative, broken, dysfunctional, counterproductive, inefficient, unprofitable, no damn good*. Ant.… …
118Inutility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Inutility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 inutility inutility Sgm: N 1 uselessness uselessness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 inefficacy inefficacy futility Sgm: N 1 ineptitude ineptitude inaptitude Sgm: N 1 …
119Failure — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Failure >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 failure failure Sgm: N 1 nonsuccess nonsuccess nonfulfillment Sgm: N 1 dead failure dead failure successlessness Sgm: N 1 abortion abortion miscarriage Sgm: N 1 b …
120abortive — a. 1. Miscarrying, failing, untimely, immature, incomplete, stunted, rudimentary, rudimental. 2. Unavailing, vain fruitless, useless, bootless, ineffectual, ineffective, inoperative, unsuccessful, profitless, futile, unprofitable, idle, nugatory …
