infertile

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infertile - 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]

infertile - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  infertile
      adj 1: incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" [syn:
             sterile, unfertile, infertile] [ant: fertile]

infertile - 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