sterile
Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
Other meanings
Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.
Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive.
Antonyms
- fertile
- non-sterile
Related words
- intersterile
- semisterile
- sterilant
- sterilely
- sterileness
- steripipette
- ultrasterile
- self-sterile
- sterile neutrino
- sterile oat
- anti-sterile-neutrino
- sterile antineutrino
Word history
From Latin "sterilis" (barren, futile).
Where this comes from
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