adj. Function: adjective
1 lacking the power to bear offspring or produce fruit FF1C; a hybrid that is completely sterile FF1E;
Synonyms: barren, effete, impotent, infecund, infertile, unfruitful
Related Words: 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
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Synonyms: UNORIGINAL , noncreative, uncreative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginative
Related Words: flat, insipid, jejune, vapid; stale; effete, worn-out; impotent
Contrasted Words: fertile, fruitful, potent, producing, productive, prolific
Antonyms: fecund