Infertile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not fertile; unproductive or barren.
  • adj. Biology Not capable of initiating, sustaining, or supporting reproduction.
  • adj. Biology Not fertilized and hence incapable of growing and developing: infertile duck eggs.
  • adj. Not capable of sustaining crops or vegetation: infertile land.
  • adj. Unproductive or producing little: a path of research that proved infertile.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. not fertile
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; unable to propagate its kind; ; an infertile hybrid; -- of living things and of soil or land.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not fertile; not fruitful or productive; barren; sterile: as, an infertile soil; infertile ideas.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. incapable of reproducing
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    fertile   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    barren    sterile    barre   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Myrtle    fertile    hurtle    mirtle    myrtle    turtle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    malarious    unfruitful    untilled    unproductive    uncultivated    sterile    arid    waterless    inhospitable    effete