Emily Dickinson Lexicon

fruitless (-er), adj. [ME.]

1. Worthless; bootless; futile; in vain; not productive; of no good effect.
2. Phrase. “Fruitlesser to fling”: because fighting is useless; because flight is impossible; because flinging oneself against fate would be fruitless; because throwing a fit would not make any difference; [editor's note: what a brilliant loaded alliterative ED phrase!]