castoff vs fruitless

castoff

adj
  • discarded, rejected. 

noun
  • Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject. 

fruitless

adj
  • Unproductive, useless. 

  • Of a diet, etc.: without fruit. 

  • Bearing no fruit; barren. 

How often have the words castoff and fruitless occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )