unfertile
- adjective
- /ʌnˈfɜr.tɪl/
- Archaic
:
infértil
- The study showed that unfertile environments often lack the necessary nutrients for plant growth.
It defines selfishness in this terribly narrow and really unfertile sort of way.
- It defines selfishness in this terribly narrow and really unfertile sort of way.
Examples
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Still, glancing at herself in the mirror, she didn't look like an unfertile woman.
Fiction book (1994) -
It defines selfishness in this terribly narrow and really unfertile sort of way.
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His land must be kept fat, well, and fertile, for when his land was sick, then he was sick; and when his land was lean, then he was lean; and when his land was unfertile, then he was sad, and his heart held no place for his neighbors, his land.
Fiction book (2001) -
And unfertile land, wasteland, marshland, or rocky upland, was eyeless, windowless.
Fiction book (1991) -
In this case, unfertile soil, distance to the main road, and distance to the river increase the probabilities of land abandonment; proximity to the urban center and longer distances to the forest decrease the probabilities of land abandonment.
Academic text (2001) -
The unfertile land could not support any crops, leading the farmers to seek better soil.
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Due to her unfertile condition, she decided to explore adoption as an alternative to starting a family.
Synonyms
19
5.2
Not able to have babies or other young
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5.3
Unable to have babies or make seeds
12
6.8
Unable to have children or young
Made unable to have babies or young by an operation
Not able to have young or make seeds
Not able to have children or young
Antonyms
How Fertile
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unfertile is made of un- meaning 'not' and fertile, which means 'able to produce' and appears in words like fertility and fertilizer. So, unfertile means 'not able to produce', for example land that will not grow crops, a plant that does not make seeds, or a person who cannot have children.