Word Meanings - STERILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

stiff, solid, stei^ros barren, stei^ra a cow that has not calved, 1. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year. Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for

Additional info about word: STERILE

stiff, solid, stei^ros barren, stei^ra a cow that has not calved, 1. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year. Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens. Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid. 3. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STERILE)

• Arid
• Dry
• parched
• sterile
• unproductive
• Jejune
• Bare
• scant
• poor
• thin
• weak
• barren
• poverty-struck
• bald

Related words: (words related to STERILE)

• SCANTLING
  Not plentiful; small; scanty. Jer. Taylor.
• SCANTLE
  To be deficient; to fail. Drayton.
• JEJUNE
  1. Lacking matter; empty; void of substance. 2. Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative. - Je*june"ly, adv. -- Je*june"ness, n. Bacon.
• BARRENLY
  Unfruitfully; unproductively.
• SCANTNESS
  The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward things." Barrow.
• BARRENWORT
  An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family , having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
• PARCHING
  Scorching; burning; drying. "Summer's parching heat." Shak. -- Parch"ing*ly, adv.
• SCANT
  1. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment. His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter
• PARCH
  1. To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. Lev. xxiii. 14. 2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched
• PARCHMENTIZE
  To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid.
• SCANTINESS
  Quality condition of being scanty.
• PARCHEESI
  See PACHISI
• STERILE
  stiff, solid, stei^ros barren, stei^ra a cow that has not calved, 1. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year. Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for
• PARCHEDNESS
  The state of being parched.
• PARCHESI
  See PACHISI
• SCANTY
  1. Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant. his dominions were very narrow and scanty. Locke. Now scantier limits the proud arch confine. Pope. 2. Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words;
• PARCHMENT
  pergamenum, L. pergamena, pergamina, fr. L. Pergamenus of or belonging to Pergamus an ancient city of Mysia in Asia Minor, where 1. The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. But here's a
• SCANTILY
  In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously. His mind was very scantily stored with materials. Macaulay.
• BARREN
  bréhaigne; of uncertain origin; cf. Arm. brékha, markha, sterile; LL. brana a sterile mare, principally in Aquitanian and Spanish 1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- She was barren of children. Bp. Hall. 2. Not
• BARRENNESS
  The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness. A total barrenness of invention. Dryden.
• CORUSCANT
  Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.
• TOPARCH
  The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.
• EPARCH
  In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.
• EPARCHY
  A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.
• TOPARCHY
  A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies. Fuller.
• PACHISI; PARCHESI; PARCHISI; PARCHEESI
  A game adopted from the Indian game, using disks, as of pasteboard, and dice.
• PACHISI; PARCHESI
  A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.
• UNPARCHED
  Dried up; withered by heat. "My tongue . . . unparched." Crashaw.
• DISCANT
  See N
• DESCANT
  discantus, fr. L. dis + cantus singing, melody, fr. canere to sing. Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song. The