sterile (adj.)
- abortive
- acarpous
- antiseptic
- arid
- aseptic
- bare
- barren
- blank
- bloodless
- boiled
- bootless
- celibate
- characterless
- childless
- cold
- colorless
- counterproductive
- dead
- desolate
- dismal
- drained
- dreary
- dried-up
- dry
- dull
- dusty
- effete
- elephantine
- empty
- etiolated
- exhausted
- fallow
- fatuous
- feckless
- flat
- fruitless
- futile
- gaunt
- gelded
- heavy
- ho-hum
- hollow
- hygienic
- impotent
- inadequate
- inane
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inefficacious
- infertile
- inoperative
- insipid
- invalid
- jejune
- leached
- leaden
- lifeless
- low-spirited
- menopausal
- nonproductive
- nugatory
- otiose
- pale
- pallid
- pasteurized
- pedestrian
- plodding
- pointless
- poky
- ponderous
- profitless
- prophylactic
- pure
- sanitary
- slow
- solemn
- spiritless
- stale
- sterilized
- stiff
- stodgy
- stuffy
- superficial
- tasteless
- tedious
- unavailing
- uncontaminated
- uncreative
- uncultivated
- unfertile
- unfruitful
- uninfected
- uninspired
- uninventive
- unplowed
- unpolluted
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unremunerative
- unrewarding
- unsown
- untilled
- useless
- vain
- vapid
- virgin
- waste
- wasted
- wooden
- worn-out
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
