ungenerativeadj.
(un- prefix1 1.)
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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
1733 Shakespeare's Measure for Measure iii. i. 104 in L. Theobald Wks. Shakespeare I. 360 He is a motion ungenerative [1623 generatiue] that's infallible.
1854 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) II. vi. §17 Justinian existed..to declare that the Greek Church and the Greek Empire were withered and ungenerative stocks.
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