Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.
- 2adjective
Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
- 3adjective
Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.
- 4adjective
Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.
- 5adjective
deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
"a sterile ideology lacking in originality"
"unimaginative development of a musical theme"
- 6adjective
incapable of reproducing
"an infertile couple"
- 7adjective
free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
"a sterile operating area"
"aseptic surgical instruments"
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