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sterile

adjective

1 sterile

Incapable of reproducing.

synonyms: infertile, unfertile.

Roget 187: absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence etc. ... show more

Roget 169: unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow; ... show more

2 sterile

Free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms:
— A sterile operating area.

synonym: aseptic.

3 sterile

Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention:
— A sterile ideology lacking in originality.

synonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive.


Moby thesaurus: abortive, acarpous, antiseptic, arid, aseptic, bare, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, boiled, bootless, celibate, characterless, childless, cold, colorless, counterproductive, dead, decontaminated ... show more.

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