Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not fertile; unproductive or barren.
- adjective Not capable of initiating, sustaining, or supporting reproduction.
- adjective Not fertilized and hence incapable of growing and developing.
- adjective Not capable of sustaining crops or vegetation.
- adjective Unproductive or producing little.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not fertile; not fruitful or productive; barren; sterile: as, an infertile soil; infertile ideas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; unable to propagate its kind; ; an
infertile hybrid; -- of living things and of soil or land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not
fertile
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of reproducing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Identifying herself with the word infertile had diminished her sense of herself as a woman.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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Identifying herself with the word infertile had diminished her sense of herself as a woman.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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Hearing the word infertile had made her feel unfeminine and as if her female body had failed in some way.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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Hearing the word infertile had made her feel unfeminine and as if her female body had failed in some way.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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A Sumatra tiger cub born to a mother previously thought to be infertile is in good health at the Frankfurt Zoo in Germany.
Daseep The Tiger Cub: Baby Sumatra Tiger Born To Mother Previously Thought To Be Infertile (PHOTOS) AP/Huffington Post 2010
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A Sumatra tiger cub born to a mother previously thought to be infertile is in good health at the Frankfurt Zoo in ...
Daseep The Tiger Cub: Baby Sumatra Tiger Born To Mother Previously Thought To Be Infertile (PHOTOS) AP/Huffington Post 2010
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Now they are coming back because the Karzai government is inviting them back and then it is dumping them in infertile deserts with no access to healthcare, no access to jobs, she said.
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A Sumatra tiger cub born to a mother previously thought to be infertile is in good health at the Frankfurt Zoo in ...
Daseep The Tiger Cub: Baby Sumatra Tiger Born To Mother Previously Thought To Be Infertile (PHOTOS) AP/Huffington Post 2010
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A Sumatra tiger cub born to a mother previously thought to be infertile is in good health at the Frankfurt Zoo in Germany.
Daseep The Tiger Cub: Baby Sumatra Tiger Born To Mother Previously Thought To Be Infertile (PHOTOS) AP/Huffington Post 2010
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A Sumatra tiger cub born to a mother previously thought to be infertile is in good health at the Frankfurt Zoo in Germany.
Daseep The Tiger Cub: Baby Sumatra Tiger Born To Mother Previously Thought To Be Infertile (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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