resultless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English result Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English resultless From result + -less.
Meanings
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(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.
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:
Deriveds
Translations (1)
kmr bêencam (Without results)