Definition of Sterile

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Sterile

Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.

Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.

Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.

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Sterile Quotations

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
Charles Baudelaire

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
Alan Alda

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
Abbie Hoffman

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
Freda Adler

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
Gustav Mahler

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
Peter Ustinov

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
Harold H. Greene

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
Polykarp Kusch

Sterile Translations

sterile in Dutch is onvruchtbaar, kiemvrij, steriel
sterile in German is Keimfrei
sterile in Latin is infecundus
sterile in Swedish is steril

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