resultless

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adjective

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.”

OriginProto-Germanic *lausaz ← Proto-Indo-European *lewHs- ← English result →
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Meanings

adjectiveresultless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout 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.

    1 more example

    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

Origin

  1. Englishresult
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  4. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  5. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  6. Englishresultless

From result + -less.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

resultless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resultless

MLA

“resultless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resultless. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “resultless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resultless.

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