Synonyms for sterile
- adjective
Most common
infertile barren desolate fruitless uninspired unimaginative
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Infertile — unable to reproduce (or procreate)
infertile, barren, desolate, fruitless, arid, unproductive, desert, ineffective, poor, unfruitful, ineffectual, futile, vain, abortive, masturbatory, jejune, otiose, infecund, acarpous, unprolific, unfertile, pointless
2. Uninspired
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
- adj. 2
Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.
Related words
- Word family
- sterileness sterilize sterilized sterility
- Phrases
- sterile neutrino sterile oat
Example sentences
- barren Algeria's Sahara is barren and sparsely populated.
- arid Algeria's high plateaus are a vast semi-arid area.
- unproductive The meeting ended up being futile and unproductive.
- infertile She's pregnant, but her husband is infertile.
- sterilized The product is sterilized and aseptically packed.
- antiseptic Wash his wound with this antiseptic.
By length
- 4 letters
- poor1, vain1, arid2
- 6 letters
- desert2, barren2, futile2, jejune2, otiose3
- 7 letters
- aseptic
- 8 letters
- desolate3, abortive3, infecund, acarpous
- 9 letters
- pointless2, fruitless2, infertile3, unfertile
- 10 letters
- sterilized3, antiseptic4, uninspired4, sterilised, unfruitful, uncreative, unprolific
- 11 letters
- ineffective4, ineffectual5, uninventive
- 12 letters
- unproductive4, masturbatory
- 13 letters
- unimaginative6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (arid2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- stérile
- Italiano
- sterile
- Español
- estéril
- Deutsch
- unfruchtbar