unreproductiveadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnriːprəˈdʌktɪv/, U.S. /ˌənriprəˈdəktɪv/ Not reproductive (in various senses); non-reproductive.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating or constructing again > not creating again
unreproductive1836
the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective]
unbearingc825
deafc897
westyOE
wastumlessc975
wilderna1050
drya1340
gelda1350
barren1377
unfructuousa1382
poora1387
ungreenc1400
infecundc1420
farrow1494
fruitlessa1513
unfruitful1531
sterile1552
hungry1577
penurious1594
unfertile1596
infertile1598
howling1611
ungenitureda1616
arid1656
infecundous1661
ungendering1706
yeld1721
unproductive1725
infructuose1727
ungenerative1733
fallow1791
nihili-parturient1812
dowf1824
wastec1825
non-productive1830
unreproductive1836
infructuous1860
unvintaged1869
increative1877
ablastemic1881
submarginal1895
1836 A. H. Moreton Civilization vii. 151 The class of those unreproductive through poverty may now, in a great measure, cease to exist.
1861 Evening Star & Dial 2 Mar. 2/1 Our enormous public unreproductive expenditure.
1930 W. K. Hancock Australia viii. 161 Informed opinion was ready to welcome the report of the British Economic Mission (January 1929), which warned Australia that unreproductive developmental expenditure was imposing ‘a heavy burden on the general community’.
1968 P. Scott Day of Scorpion ii. ii. 319 Hers were the menstrual flows of a virgin, sour little seepages such as Barbie Batchelor had presumably sustained for a good thirty years of her unreproductive life.
2009 New Eng. Q. 82 272 Nativist paranoia that New England's unconventional, unreproductive women would bring about the extinction of racial whiteness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1836