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sterile

 
Adjective sterile has 3 senses
  1. sterile, unfertile, infertile - incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"
    Antonyms: fertile, fecund, fertilized, fertilised, impregnated, inseminated, rank, conceptive, fertilizable
  2. aseptic, sterile - free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms; "a sterile operating area"; "aseptic surgical instruments"; "aseptic surgical techniques"
    Antonym: septic (indirect, via antiseptic)
  3. sterile, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive - deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
    Antonyms: creative, originative (indirect, via uncreative)
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