英语词汇“sterile”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	sterile
释义	ster·ile \ˈsterə̇l, -ˌrīl\ adjective Etymology: Latin sterilis; akin to Greek steira sterile, Gothic stairo sterile, Sanskrit starī sterile cow 1. a. : failing to produce or incapable of producing offspring < a hybrid that is completely sterile > b. : failing to bear or incapable of bearing fruit or spores < a sterile tree > < sterile fungous hyphae > c. : incapable of germinating < sterile spores > d. of a flower : lacking a gynecium : neither perfect nor pistillate e. : having or producing no sori < sterile fern fronds > 2. : characterized by deficient fruitfulness : barren: as a. : deficient in plant life : unproductive of crops or other vegetation < a sterile arid region > < an unusually sterile year > b. : deficient in ideas or originality of thought < a sterile author > < sterile prose > c. : free from living organisms and especially microorganisms < a sterile cyst > < dead sterile soil > — compare sterilize 3. : serving no useful purpose : withheld from a normal use or function < capital kept sterile through lack of initiative > < excessive and sterile reserves > Synonyms: sterile, barren, impotent, unfruitful, infertile mean not having or not manifesting the power to produce offspring or bear fruit, literally or figuratively. sterile implies literal inability, stressing some defect or lack in the reproductive functions; it has a strong figurative use, implying a lack or absence of creative vigor < a sterile woman > < a sterile ram > < a sterile author > < the failure of the three characters to emerge as individuals makes their personal drama seem sterile — American Scholar > < for him man is always the wanderer in the oppressive and sterile world of materialism — Alfred Kazin > < lies at an elevation of from 500 to 1,500 feet, and consists mainly of saline wastes and other sterile tracts — Encyc. Americana > barren applies especially to a female who has borne no offspring or is incapable of bearing offspring, stressing, literally and figuratively, the lack of issue < a barren woman > < a barren soil > < nine barren years of marriage — Alice Lake > < I am very barren of American news — H.J.Laski > impotent in this sense applies especially to a male lacking the ability to engage in sexual intercourse and so to produce his kind, carrying more generally the implication of inability to act or suggesting some lack of manliness or natural vigor < an impotant man > < nothing is quite so impotent in politics as a defeated candidate — W.A.White > < drove the choleric old man into a fit of impotent fury — Charles Reade > unfruitful, interchangeable with barren though less forceful and absolute, has a more widespread figurative than literal use < an unfruitful orchard > < an unfruitful enterprise > < unfruitful negotiations between belligerent states > infertile, a factual and neutral word, carries the sense of sterile, especially in literal application < an infertile marriage > < an infertile valley > < an infertile line of research >
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