单词 | infertile |
释义 | infertile (once / 7401 pages) adj Someone who's infertile isn't able to have children. Plants and animals, as well as humans, are sometimes infertile and can't reproduce naturally. People who are trying to have a baby may find they're unable to because one of them is infertile, or not able to conceive. A woman who's infertile may instead be unable to carry a baby to term. Infertile is a French word, from the Latin infertilis, "unfruitful," from the roots in-, "not," and fertilis, "bearing in abundance." WORD FAMILYinfertile: infertility+/fertile: fertilely, fertilest, fertilise, fertility, fertilize, fertily, infertile, unfertile/fertilisation: self-fertilisation/fertilise: cross-fertilise, fertilisation, fertilised, fertiliser, fertilises, fertilising/fertilised: self-fertilised, unfertilised/fertiliser: fertilisers/fertility: antifertility, fertilities/fertilization: fertilizations, self-fertilization/fertilize: cross-fertilize, fertilizable, fertilization, fertilized, fertilizer, fertilizes, fertilizing/fertilized: self-fertilized, unfertilized/fertilizer: fertilizers/infertility: infertilities USAGE EXAMPLESMuch of Niger’s territory is hot, dusty and infertile. Economist(Nov 24, 2016) An infertile couple liked what they saw on paper and Ms. Griffin was notified that they wanted to buy her eggs. New York Times(Oct 20, 2016) People suffering from infections lose time from work, and women may become infertile or develop complications such as ectopic pregnancies and chronic pelvic pain. Washington Times(Nov 01, 2016) adj incapable of reproducing an infertile couple Syn|Ant sterile, unfertile barren not bearing offspring sterilised, sterilizedmade infertile unfertilised, unfertilized, unimpregnatednot having been fertilized unfruitfulnot fruitful; not conducive to abundant production impotentlacking power or ability unproductivenot producing or capable of producing fertile capable of reproducing conceptive, impregnablecapable of conceiving fecundcapable of producing offspring or vegetation fertilizablecapable of being fertilized rankvery fertile; producing profuse growth fruitfulproductive or conducive to producing in abundance potent, stiff, stronghaving a strong physiological or chemical effect productiveproducing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) |
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