unfruitful

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

unfruitful
    adj 1: not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production [ant:
           {fruitful}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Unfruitful \Un*fruit"ful\, a.
   Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile;
   barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful
   soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- {Un*fruit"ful*ly},
   adv. -- {Un*fruit"ful*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "unfruitful":
      acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, desert, desolate,
      drained, dried-up, dry, effete, exhausted, fallow, fruitless,
      gaunt, gelded, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile,
      issueless, jejune, leached, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing,
      nonproductive, nonprolific, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry,
      teemless, uncultivated, unfertile, unplowed, unproductive,
      unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted,
      without issue

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