sterile

  • (a) incapable of reproducing
    • an infertile couple
    infertile, unfertile,
  • (s) free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
    • a sterile operating area
    • aseptic surgical instruments
    • aseptic surgical techniques
    aseptic,
  • (s) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
    • a sterile ideology lacking in originality
    • unimaginative development of a musical theme
    • uninspired writing
    unimaginative, uninventive, uninspired,

Synonyms

infertile unfertile aseptic unimaginative uninventive uninspired

Antonyms

fertile

See also

unfruitful impotent unproductive

Words of close approximity

sterileness