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sterileadjective not able to produce fruit or offspringsterile couples sometimes choose to adopt needy children the apple tree turned out to be sterile, never yielding a crop of apples barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, unfruitful altered, desexed, neutered, sterilizedcastrated, emasculated, geldedspayedunproductive fat, fertile, fruitful fecund, luxuriant, productive, prolificenriched, fertilized, richimpregnated, pregnantpotentbearing, producing, yieldingblooming, bursting, flourishing, swarming, teeming free from filth, infection, or dangers to healththe hospitals in the war-torn city often lack necessary drugs and sterile surgical supplies aseptic, germfree, hygienic, sanitary germproofantibacterial, antibiotic, antiseptic, germicidal, microbicidalclean, immaculate, pristine, spick-and-span(or spic-and-span), spotless, squeaky-clean, stainless, unsoiled, unstained, unsulliedbeneficial, healthful, healthy, restorative, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, wholesomepure, taintless, undefiled, unpolluted, untaintedabluted, bleached, cleansed, purified, scrubbed, washed, whitened germy, insanitary, unhygienic, unsanitary, unsterile infectious, miasmic, pathogenetic, pathogenic, poisonous, sickening, toxicbedraggled, besmirched, dingy, dirty, draggled, dusty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty, smirched, soiled, sordid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly, unwashedinsalubrious, noxious, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesomedefiled, polluted, tainted, unsterilized in the 15th century |