The corpus record

ἄκραντος

akrantos

unfulfilled, fruitless, idle

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Where it lives

Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Suppliants 2 · 2.84/10k
Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἄκραντος · akrantos — LSJ

unfulfilled, fruitless, idle, in vain

unfulfilled, fruitless, idle, ἔπεα, ἐλπίδες, Pi. O. 1.86, P. 3.23; τέχναι A. Ag. 249:— neut.pl. as Adv., in vain, Pi. O. 2.87; ἄκραντα βάζω A. Ch. 882; οὐδʼ ἄκρανθʼ ὡρμήσαμεν E. Ba. 435, cf. 1231; ἄκραντʼ ὀδύρῃ Supp. 770.

2 ineffectual

ineffectual, νύξ A. Ch. 65.

In the wild

ἄκραντοι · akrantoi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 249
ἄκραντος · akrantos Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 61–65
ἄκραντα · akranta Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 882
ἄκραντον · akranton Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.8 (DIORISIS sentence 885)
ἄκραντʼ · akrantʼ Euripides, Bacchae 1227–1231
ἄκρανθʼ · akranthʼ Euripides, Bacchae 434–435

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Where it came from

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