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Definition of unfertile in English: unfertileadjectiveʌnˈfəːtʌɪl Not fertile; infertile. Example sentencesExamples - In his unfertile imagination, he could see the Earth rapidly shrinking in the distance behind them.
- The first being people's unwillingness to put babies up for adoption and the second being the unwillingness of unfertile parents to accept another child as their own.
- Whatever we can do, we must do, however fertile or unfertile the soil at any given moment in any particular place.
- He tells Oedipus the city is drowning and almost dead - the soil is unfertile, the cattle pastures are burnt, and babies are all stillborn.
- The unpopulated landscape remains inexorably negative: unfertile ground for a moribund enthusiasm.
- Weathered igneous and metamorphic rocks generally result in stony, well-drained, and relatively unfertile soils.
- Trees and plants were all rare sights in this deserted area of unfertile soil.
- And true to the wish of the colonialists, the natives gave in and later settled on very unfertile soils.
- Rather than giving to those countries in most need, O'Neill said, ‘We have an obligation to plant our resources where they will yield growth, rather than squandering precious seeds in unfertile soil.’
Synonyms weakened, exhausted, drained, sapped, diminished, depleted, enervated, sucked dry, used up, spent, played out
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