Infertile

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Infertile \In*fer"tile\, a. [L. infertilis: cf. F. infertile.
     See {In-} not, and {Fertile}.]
     Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; unable to
     propagate its kind; as, an infertile soil; an infertile
     hybrid; -- of living things and of soil or land.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  infertile
       adj : incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" [syn: {sterile},
              {unfertile}] [ant: {fertile}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "infertile":
     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