Sterile

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

2. Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.

3. Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.

4. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.