Sterile

Adjective

 * 1)  unable to reproduce (or procreate).
 * 2) unprofitable.
 * 3) germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.

Synonyms

 * barren
 * infertile

Adverbs for Sterile
safely; securely; absolutely; warrantably; completely; assuredly; protectively; supposedly; presumably; carefully.

Thesaurus
abortive, acarpous, antiseptic, arid, aseptic, bare, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, boiled, bootless, celibate, characterless, childless, cold, colorless, counterproductive, dead, decontaminated, desert, desolate, disinfected, dismal, draggy, drained, drearisome, dreary, dried-up, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, exhausted, fade, fallow, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, flat, fruitless, futile, gainless, gaunt, gelded, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hygienic, impotent, inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inoperative, insipid, invalid, issueless, jejune, leached, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, menopausal, noncreative, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, nonremunerative, nugacious, nugatory, of no force, otiose, pale, pallid, pasteurized, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, profitless, prophylactic, pure, rewardless, sanitary, sine prole, slow, solemn, spiritless, stale, sterilized, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, sucked dry, superficial, tasteless, tedious, teemless, unavailing, uncontaminated, uncreative, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, uninfected, uninspired, uninventive, unlively, unplowed, unpolluted, unproductive, unprofitable, unprolific, unremunerative, unrewarding, unsown, untilled, useless, vain, vapid, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue, wooden, worn-out

Etymology
From sterilis:. See also στεῖρα:.

Translations

 * Armenian:, չբեր,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 不孕, 貧瘠, 贫瘠, 无菌, 不生育


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: onvruchtbaar, onvruchtbare, steriel, steriele
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 不毛, 不妊
 * Polish: bezpłodny
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: бесплодный
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 無菌


 * Czech:
 * Danish: steril
 * German:


 * Greenlandic: bakteriaqanngitsoq
 * Russian: стерильный
 * Spanish:

Related terms

 * sterilisation / sterilization
 * sterilise / sterilize
 * sterilised / sterilized
 * sterility

Anagrams

 * leister
 * retiles

Adjective

 * 1) sterile, barren, unprolific, infertile
 * 2) sterile, sterilized (medicine)
 * 3) vain, pointless
 * 4) unproductive

Related terms

 * sterilità
 * sterilizzato
 * sterilizzazione
 * sterilizzare
 * sterilire