fruitless vs noneffective

fruitless

adj
  • Unproductive, useless. 

  • Of a diet, etc.: without fruit. 

  • Bearing no fruit; barren. 

noneffective

adj
  • Not effective. 

  • Not able to assume active duty. 

noun
  • A member of the military who is unable to assume active duty. 

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