fruitless
Police swarmed over the area, fruitlessly searching a hotel close to the restaurant.
They worked fruitlessly for more than a week to come up with a plan.
The US Coast Guard searched fruitlessly for a surfer reported missing off Miami Beach.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Useless and futile
adrift
aimless
aimlessly
aimlessness
airy-fairy
fruitless
fruitlessness
futile
futilely
futility
negation
no goodidiom
non-viable
nugatory
ornamental
unrealistic
unrealistically
unseriousness
until you are blue in the faceidiom
unviability
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Unsuccessful (people and things)