Having acquired or gained nothing:
— The returned from the negotiations empty-handed.

synoniem: unrewarded.

Roget 640: insufficient, inadequate; too little etc. 32; not enough etc. 639; unequal to; incompetent etc. (impotent) 158; weighed in the balance and found wanting;" perfunctory etc. (neglect) 460; deficient etc. (incomplete) 53; wanting, etc. v.; imperfect etc. 651; ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-stored, ill-off.    slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of etc. 789; denuded of; dry, drained.    unprovided, unsupplied^†, unfurnished; unreplenished, unfed^†; unstored^†, untreasured^†; empty-handed.    meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved, starving; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.    scant etc. (small) 32; scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy etc. 819; at the end of one's tether; without resources etc. 632; in want etc. (poor) 804; in debt etc. 806.    ... meer laten zien

Carrying nothing in the hands.