Word Meaning

sterile definition and meaning

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

Crossword clues for sterile

- Aseptic
- clinically clean
- free of germs
- Germ free
- Germ-free
- Lacking imagination
- Lacking vitality
- No germs, no pregnancy
- Perfectly clean
- Spotlessly clean stair? I’ll say!
- Unproductive description of isolation ward