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infertile

Pronunciation:  in'furtl

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Matching Terms:  infertilely, infertility

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"
  2. [adj]  not fertile or productive; "a barren tree"; "soil too infertile to sustain real pasture"
 
 Synonyms: barren, sterile, sterilised, sterilized, unfertile, unfertilised, unfertilized, unimpregnated
 
 Antonyms: fertile
 
 See Also: impotent, unfruitful, unproductive

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\In*fer"tile\, a. [L. infertilis: cf. F. infertile.
See {In-} not, and {Fertile}.]
Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an
infertile soil.

 
Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Dreaming that you are infertile, represents a lack of creativity. Something in your waking life is not working out in the way that you want. The dream may also reflect your own state of infertility and the struggles to have a baby.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, depleted, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, dull, earthbound, effete, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, impotent, impoverished, ineffectual, infecund, issueless, jejune, leached, literal, menopausal, mundane, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, parasitize, prosaic, prosing, prosy, sine prole, staid, sterile, stolid, stuffy, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfanciful, unfertile, unfruitful, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unplowed, unpoetic, unproductive, unprolific, unromantic, unromanticized, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue
 

 

 

 

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