resultless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]resultless (not comparable)
- Without result; lacking effect, success or accomplishment; fruitless.
- The search was resultless. Not only were no bodies or wreckage recovered but no trace was ever found.
- 1933, Robinson Jeffers, “Antrim”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers[1], New York: Random House, published 1937, page 473:
- Here in the narrow passage and the pitiless north, perpetual / Betrayals, relentless resultless fighting.