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sterile

deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"

incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"

Synonyms:

• 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