Sterile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not producing or incapable of producing offspring.
  • adj. Not producing or incapable of producing seed, fruit spores, or other reproductive structures. Used of plants or their parts.
  • adj. Producing little or no vegetation; unfruitful: sterile land.
  • adj. Free from live bacteria or other microorganisms: a sterile operating area; sterile instruments.
  • adj. Lacking imagination, creativity, or vitality.
  • adj. Lacking the power to function; not productive or effective; fruitless: a sterile discussion.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
  • adj. Unprofitable.
  • adj. Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile.
  • adj.
  • adj. Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful.
  • adj. Free from reproductive spores or germs.
  • adj. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile.
  • Barren; not reproducing its kind.
  • In botany, of a flower, producing only stamens—that is, staminate or male (compare neutral); of a stamen, having no anther, or a functionless one; of an anther, without pollen; of an ovary, without perfect seeds; of a seed, without an embryo; of a frond, without sori. See cuts under Onoclea, Ophioglossum, sassafras, and smoke-tree.
  • Free from living germs.
  • Leading to no results; fruitless; profitless; useless.
  • Lacking richness of thought or expression; bald; bare: as, a sterile style; sterile verse.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
  • adj. deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
  • adj. incapable of reproducing
    • Equivalent
    antiseptic    uncreative    barren    sterilised    sterilized   
    Cross Reference
    sterile wood   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    barren    unfruitful    unproductive    barre    infertile   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beryl    Carol    Carole    Carroll    Cheryl   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barren    arid    desolate    fertile    spin-dry   
     
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