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The synonyms of “Sterile” are: infertile, unfertile, aseptic, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unproductive, unfruitful, uncultivatable, pointless, profitless, fruitless, unrewarding, abortive, unsuccessful, ineffectual, ineffective, worthless, useless, unprofitable, futile, vain, idle, uninspiring, unoriginal, derivative, stale, lifeless, musty, sterilized, antiseptic, uninfected, uncontaminated, unpolluted, pure, clean
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “sterile” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| abortive | (of an organ or organism) rudimentary; arrested in development. An abortive revolt. |
| antiseptic | Thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms. Lyrics as antiseptic as Sunday School. |
| aseptic | (of surgical practice) aiming at the complete exclusion of harmful microorganisms. Aseptic surgical techniques. |
| clean | Free from dirt or impurities or having clean habits. The room was spotlessly clean. |
| derivative | Originating from, based on, or influenced by. A highly derivative prose style. |
| fruitless | (of a tree or plant) not producing fruit. A banana leaf from a fruitless palm. |
| futile | Unproductive of success. It is futile to allocate blame for this. |
| idle | Without purpose or effect; pointless. An idle mind. |
| ineffective | Not producing an intended effect. An ineffective teacher. |
| ineffectual | Not producing an intended effect. The therapy was ineffectual. |
| infertile | (of land) unable to sustain crops or vegetation. An infertile couple. |
| lifeless | Devoid of living things. Dull and lifeless hair. |
| musty | Lacking freshness or vitality; old-fashioned. A dark musty library. |
| pointless | Not having a point especially a sharp point. Speculating like this is a pointless exercise. |
| profitless | Without profit or reward. Let us have no part in profitless quarrels. |
| pure | Of color being chromatically pure not diluted with white or grey or black. Pure and vestal modesty. |
| stale | (of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry. The beer was stale. |
| sterilized | Made free from bacteria or other living microorganisms. Sterilized pets are often easier to train. |
| uncontaminated | Not contaminated. Uncontaminated air and food. |
| uncultivatable | Not suitable for cultivation or tilling. |
| unfertile | Incapable of reproducing. |
| unfruitful | Not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production. The meeting was unfruitful. |
| unimaginative | Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention. The audience proved sluggish and unimaginative. |
| uninfected | Free from sepsis or infection. A clean or uninfected wound. |
| uninspired | Having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement. The production was professional but uninspired. |
| uninspiring | Not producing excitement or interest. An uninspiring game that United scarcely deserved to win. |
| uninventive | Not showing creativity or original thought. The oils were sensitively painted but uninventive in design. |
| unoriginal | Lacking originality; derivative. An uninteresting and unoriginal essay. |
| unpolluted | Free from admixture with noxious elements; clean. Her mind remains unpolluted by the filth they teach her. |
| unproductive | Not producing desired results. Unproductive meetings. |
| unprofitable | (of a business or activity) not yielding profit or financial gain. There has been much unprofitable speculation. |
| unrewarding | Not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction. It was dull unrewarding work. |
| unsuccessful | Not successful. An unsuccessful attempt to enter Parliament. |
| useless | Having no ability or skill in a specified activity or area. A piece of useless knowledge. |
| vain | Producing no result; useless. Their flattery made him vain. |
| worthless | Having no real value or use. A worthless idler. |
| abort | Carry out or undergo the abortion of a fetus. An aborting fetus. |
| abortion | The expulsion of a fetus from the uterus by natural causes before it is able to survive independently. Illegal abortions. |
| abortive | Failing to accomplish an intended result. An abortive revolt. |
| arid | Lacking in interest, excitement, or meaning. His arid years in suburbia. |
| baby | Treat someone as a baby pamper or be overprotective towards. It sounds simple but when you have your own baby it is all so different. |
| barren | A barren tract or tracts of land. The room was barren of furniture. |
| devoid | Completely wanting or lacking. The sentence was devoid of meaning. |
| embryo | The part of a seed which develops into a plant consisting in the mature embryo of a higher plant of a plumule a radicle and one or two cotyledons. A simple commodity economy is merely the embryo of a capitalist economy. |
| expanse | The distance to which something expands or can be expanded. The green expanse of the forest. |
| fruitless | Unproductive of success. A fruitless search. |
| futile | Producing no result or effect. Futile years after her artistic peak. |
| impotence | An inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate. People speak constantly of their social and political impotence. |
| ineffective | Not producing an intended effect. The legal sanctions against oil spills are virtually ineffective. |
| ineffectual | Lacking in power or forcefulness. An ineffectual campaign. |
| infertile | (of land) unable to sustain crops or vegetation. Infertile couples are offered specialist advice. |
| infertility | Inability to conceive children or young. A couple undergoing infertility treatment. |
| insemination | The act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc. We performed 224 inseminations on 48 females. |
| interbreed | (of an animal) inbreed. These species do not interbreed. |
| miscarriage | An unsuccessful outcome of something planned. Some pregnancies result in miscarriage. |
| miscarry | Suffer a miscarriage. Such a rash crime and one so very likely to miscarry. |
| pregnancy | The state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus. The first weeks of pregnancy. |
| pregnant | Carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life. She was six months pregnant. |
| stark | Stiff, rigid, or incapable of movement. A human body lying stiff and stark by the stream. |
| sterility | The state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate. The disease can cause sterility in males. |
| stillborn | (of an infant) born dead. A stillborn plot to assassinate the President. |
| unavailable | Not able to be used or obtained; not at someone’s disposal. The men were unavailable for work. |
| unfruitful | Not producing good or helpful results; unproductive. The meeting was unfruitful. |
| unproductive | (of an activity or period) not achieving much; not very useful. Unproductive meetings. |
| unsuccessful | Failing to accomplish an intended result. An unsuccessful attempt to enter Parliament. |
| windswept | (of a place) exposed to strong winds. The windswept moors. |
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