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View usage for: (ɪnfɜːʳtaɪl, US -təl) 1. adjectiveA person or animal that is infertile is unable to produce babies. According to one survey, one woman in eight is infertile. Synonyms: sterile, barren [old-fashioned], infecund More Synonyms of infertile infertility (ɪnfɜːʳtɪlɪti) uncountable noun Male infertility is becoming commonplace. ...couples receiving infertility treatment. Synonyms: sterility, barrenness, unproductiveness, unfruitfulness More Synonyms of infertile 2. adjectiveInfertile soil is of poor quality so that plants cannot grow in it. The polluted waste is often dumped, making the surrounding land infertile. Synonyms: barren, unproductive, nonproductive, unfruitful More Synonyms of infertile infertile in British English (ɪnˈfɜːtaɪl) adjective1. not capable of producing offspring; sterile 2. (of land) not productive; barren Derived forms infertilely (inˈfertilely) adverb infertility (ˌɪnfəˈtɪlɪtɪ) noun infertile in American English (ɪnˈfɜrtəl) adjective1. not fertile; not productive; barren 2. not fertilized, as an egg SIMILAR WORDS: ˈsterile Derived forms infertility (ˌinferˈtility) (ˌɪnfərˈtɪləti) noun Word origin MFr < L infertilisExamples of 'infertile' in a sentenceinfertile This is called soil depletion and may render the soil infertile.We were lucky in that we could afford to do what most infertile couples cannot.Some were born to married but infertile couples.But infertile couples fear the move could endanger their chances of becoming parents.One group was praying for an infertile woman.So infertile man receives instructions on chilling out.She said payments should be reconsidered because a national shortage was driving infertile couples to seek treatment abroad.So when one is infertile, he is at the end of his life.This should not only be of concern to infertile couples, their doctors and trusts.Despite the increasing number of infertile couples choosing surrogacy, the legal situation remains complex.I am an infertile man and always will be.The procedure could help cancer patients who would otherwise be left infertile by treatment, and could be used by women wishing to bank eggs.It's just trading on infertile couples' misery. Treatment left her infertile.Would you say that an infertile couple who were knowingly infertile when they got married, weren't in a proper marriage?A mother of four who stopped using birth control after doctors told her that she had become infertile has become pregnant again - with triplets. In other languagesinfertile British English: infertile / ɪnˈfɜːtaɪl/ ADJECTIVE Someone who is infertile is unable to produce babies. One woman in eight is infertile. - American English: infertile
- Arabic: عَاقِرٌ
- Brazilian Portuguese: estéril
- Chinese: 不生育的
- Croatian: neplodan
- Czech: neplodný
- Danish: ufrugtbar
- Dutch: onvruchtbaar
- European Spanish: estéril infecundo
- Finnish: hedelmätön
- French: stérile
- German: unfruchtbar
- Greek: στείρος
- Italian: sterile
- Japanese: 繁殖力のない
- Korean: 불임의
- Norwegian: ufruktbar
- Polish: nieurodzajny
- European Portuguese: estéril
- Romanian: steril
- Russian: бесплодный
- Latin American Spanish: estéril
- Swedish: infertil
- Thai: เป็นหมัน
- Turkish: verimsiz
- Ukrainian: безплідний
- Vietnamese: vô sinh
Chinese translation of 'infertile' adj - [man, woman, animal]
不能生育的 (bùnéng shēngyù de) - [soil, land]
贫(貧)瘠的 (pínjí de)
Definition not capable of producing offspring According to one survey, one woman in eight is infertile. Definition (of soil) not productive The waste is dumped, making the surrounding land infertile. Synonyms nonproductive unfruitful infecund Opposites productive , fertile , fruitful , generative , fecund Additional synonymsSynonyms barren, sterile, unproductive, infertile, infecund, unprolific increasingly unproductive land Synonyms barren, sterile, infertile, dry, fruitless, unprolific - inferiority
- infernal
- inferno
- infertile
- infertility
- infest
- infested
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