adjective
1.
lacking the power to bear offspring or produce fruit
a hybrid that is completely sterile
Synonyms: barren, effete, impotent, infecund, infertile, unfruitful
Related Word: sterilized; fallow, fruitless, unproductive; unprolific; arid, bare, dry; dead, desolate
Contrasted words: potent, productive, rich; bearing, fruiting, fruitive, producing, turning out, yielding; fecund, fruitful, prolific, teeming
Antonyms: fertile
2.
Synonyms: unoriginal , noncreative, uncreative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginative
Related Word: flat, insipid, jejune, vapid; stale; effete, worn-out; impotent
Contrasted words: fertile, fruitful, potent, producing, productive, prolific
Antonyms: fecund