- 1. a. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year. Source: opted
- 2. a. Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens. Source: opted
- 3. a. Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid. Source: opted
- 4. a. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author. Source: opted
- 5. adj. incapable of reproducing Source: wordnet
- 6. adj. free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms Source: wordnet
- 7. adj. deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention Source: wordnet
- 8. 1. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year. 2. (Biol.) (a) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens. (b) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid. 3. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author. Source: webster
- 9. j:100 a. incapable of reproducing s. deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention Source: ecdict
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