sterile

sterile is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.
2. adjective. Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
3. adjective. Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.
4. adjective. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.
5. adjective. deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention

   "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"

   "unimaginative development of a musical theme"

   Synonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive

6. adjective. incapable of reproducing

   "an infertile couple"

   Synonyms: infertile, unfertile

7. adjective. free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms

   "a sterile operating area"

   "aseptic surgical instruments"

   Synonyms: aseptic

Synonyms

unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, infertile, unfertile, aseptic

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sterile:

leister, retiles

Common word forms

sterilely, sterileness

Words from these letters

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