unsuccessful, fruitless · inconclusive, indecisive
çekim: karşılaştırma ergebnisloser · üstünlük am ergebnislosesten
eş: resultatlos
köken: Ergebnis + -los
for free, for nothing · for a song · left over, unwanted
eş: en balde
useless, fruitless · deprived, devoid · expelled or fired
çekim: çoğul cassi
zıt: utile, dotato, fornito
köken: Borrowed from Latin cassus (“hollow”, “empty”).
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empty, vacant · injudicious, ignorant, absurd
köken: Uncertain. The word does not occur in Middle Persian writings, except possibly in the Dēnkard, a 10th-century compendium, where it can be interpreted as "nihility"; whence it would be inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pwc /pūč/). The word became widespread in Iranian varieties first in the fifteenth century onward, but existed before it. Possibly from the onomatopoetic…
aile: پوچی, پوچگرایی
in vain, to no avail, for nothing
köken: From Persian بیکار (bikâr).
aile: бекерлік, бекершілік
useless, pointless · meaningless, purposeless
çekim: karşılaştırma nuttelozer · üstünlük meest nutteloos
köken: From nut + -loos.
aile: nutteloosheid
barren, unfruitful, fruitless, infertile · fruitless, unsuccessful
köken: Inherited from Ancient Greek ἄκαρπος (ákarpos). By surface analysis, ά- (á-, “un-”, privative a-) + (καρπός) καρπ- ((karpós) karp-, “fruit”) + -ος.
barren, sterile, infertile · barren, fruitless, futile
eş: 荒瘠
zıt: 多産, 生産的
🔊 不毛な土地になっています。
🔊 不毛な論争
vain, fruitless · groundless, untrue
eş: 한갓되다
köken: 헛- (heot-, “false; in vain”, prefix) + 되다 (doeda, “to become”).
aile: 헛되이, 헛된말
vain (overly concerned with one's appearance or reputation) · futile, vain (having no chance of success)
çekim: karşılaştırma fåfängare · üstünlük fåfängast
köken: From Old Swedish fafænger, equivalent to past participle of få (“few”) + få (“receive”), thus originally "[which] received little". Compare etymology of eldfängd and befängd. Attested since the mid-14th century in the sense "futile". Compare Norwegian Nynorsk fåfengd.
🔊 fåfänga försök
aimless, purposeless · pointless, futile
çekim: karşılaştırma bardziej bezcelowy · üstünlük najbardziej bezcelowy
eş: bezskuteczny, bezowocny, bezpłodny, bezproduktywny, czczy, daremny
zıt: nienadaremny, owocny, skuteczny
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰe Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ǵʰs Proto-Balto-Slavic *beź Proto-Slavic *bez(ъ) Proto-Slavic *bez- Old Polish bez- Polish bez- Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-der.? Proto-Germanic *tiląder. Proto-West Germanic *tilder. Old High German zilder. Middle High German zilbor. Old Czech cílbor. Old…
aile: bezcel, bezcelowość
🔊 bezcelowe życie
🔊 bezcelowy spór
futile, pointless
köken: Inherited from Sanskrit अकार्यार्थ (akāryārtha, “unsuccessful”).
useless (unhelpful, not useful, without use or benefit)
çekim: karşılaştırma hyödyttömämpi · üstünlük hyödyttömin
zıt: hyödyllinen
köken: hyöty + -tön
aile: hyödyttömyys, hyödyttömästi
infertile, sterile, barren · hollow, idle
çekim: karşılaştırma jalovější · üstünlük nejjalovější
eş: neplodný, sterilní, neúrodný, neoplodněný, planý, bezobsažný
köken: Inherited from Old Czech jalový, from Proto-Slavic *jalovъ.
aile: jalovec, jalovice, jalovina
for nothing, for free · in vain
eş: în zadar, de pomană, în van
köken: From de + geaba, from Ottoman Turkish جابا (caba).
in vain (without success), vainly
aile: hiábavaló
hollow, empty, devoid of something · lacking · useless, fruitless, vain, futile
köken: Verbal adjective of the same root as careō (“to lack”), castus (“pure”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”).
aile: cassō, in cassum, nux cassa
vain, futile
eş: omsonst
köken: From Middle Low German vorgeves.
in vain, no use, useless, wasted · fruitless · nonsense, ridiculous.
köken: Inherited from Malay sia-sia.
aile: bersia-sia, kesia-siaan, mensia-siakan, menyia-nyiakan, tersia-siakan