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for infertile
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Infertile \In*fer"tile\, a. [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 +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
infertile
adj 1: incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" [syn:
sterile, unfertile, infertile] [ant: fertile]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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