infertile

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Adjective
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in=fer=tile
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2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective infertile has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

infertilea. [L. infertilis: cf. F. infertile. See In- not, and Fertile.].
     Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; unable to propagate its kind; as, an infertile soil; an infertile hybrid; -- of living things and of soil or land.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

infertile, adj. not fertile.

Derivative
infertility n.
Etymology
F infertile or LL infertilis (as IN-(1), FERTILE)

THESAURUS

infertile

acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, depleted, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, dull, earthbound, effete, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, impotent, impoverished, ineffectual, infecund, issueless, jejune, leached, literal, menopausal, mundane, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, parasitize, prosaic, prosing, prosy, sine prole, staid, sterile, stolid, stuffy, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfanciful, unfertile, unfruitful, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unplowed, unpoetic, unproductive, unprolific, unromantic, unromanticized, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue

ROGET THESAURUS

infertile

Unproductiveness

N unproductiveness, infertility, sterility, infecundity, masturbation, impotence, unprofitableness, waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness, unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, sine prole, fallow, teemless, issueless, fruitless, unprofitable, null and void, of no effect.


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