STERILE

adj. 1 barren, fruitless, unfruitful, childless, unproductive, infertile, infecund The first great disappointment of Napoleon's life was that Josephine was sterile 2 pure, aseptic, uninfected, unpolluted, uncontaminated, disinfected, sanitary, sterilized, germ-free, antiseptic Make sure that you always use a sterile bandage for a wound 3 barren, unproductive, stale, effete Vanessa's greatest fear was that her mind would become sterile and she would run out of ideas