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Synonyms for infertile

Most common

sterile barren poor desert

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Not fertile.

    The soil was too infertile to grow crops.

Example sentences

  • sterile He has no descendants, he's likely sterile.
  • barren Algeria's Sahara is barren and sparsely populated.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
infertilerising
sterilefalling
barrensteady
infecundsteady
unfertilefalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
poor1
6 letters
desert2, barren2
7 letters
sterile2
8 letters
infecund
9 letters
fruitless2, unfertile
10 letters
unfruitful, unprolific
12 letters
unproductive4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (desert2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
infécond
Italiano
infecondo