fruitlessly
adverb
fruitlessly is an adverb meaning “Unproductively, uselessly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-U-I-T-L-E-S-S-L-Y and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fruitlessly mean?
adverb
- 1
Unproductively, uselessly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fruitlessly?
Fruitlessly has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fruitlessly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fruitlessly
- more fruitlessly comparative
- most fruitlessly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fruitlessly?
Fruitlessly appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fruitlessly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in a fruitless manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | infructuosamente |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fruitlessly come from?
From fruitless + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).