resultless

adj

resultless

adj

Etymology From result + -less.

1

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.
  • Here in the narrow passage and the pitiless north, perpetual / Betrayals, relentless resultless fighting.1933, Robinson Jeffers, “Antrim”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, published 1937, page 473:
Derived terms
resultlessly, resultlessness

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