resultless

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Etymology

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From result +‎ -less.

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resultless (not comparable)

  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.
    • 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.

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