Definition: (adjective) Unproductive of success.
Synonyms: fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain.
Usage: He would like to have done with life and its vanity altogether—so bootless and unsatisfactory the struggle, so cheerless and dreary the prospect seemed to him.
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