infructuose

English

Etymology

Latin infructuosus.

Adjective

infructuose (comparative more infructuose, superlative most infructuose)

  1. Not yielding fruit.
  2. (archaic, figuratively) unfruitful; unprofitable
    • April 1864, Boskousa, "Music of the Future" and "Anticipations" (letter to the editor) in The Musical World
      I am too irritable to listen to Wagner's music; in my opinion it is infructuose
    Synonym: unfructuous

References

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

īnfrūctuōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of īnfrūctuōsus

References

  • infructuose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • infructuose”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.