A sterile person can't have kids, and a sterile environment is bland and boring. In both cases, sterile means lifeless.
Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile;
Adjective S.
deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
Adjective
incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"
Adjective S.
free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms; "a sterile operating area"; "aseptic surgical instruments"; "aseptic surgical techniques"
a.
Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful;
unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a
sterile year.
a.
Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of
offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a
sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
a.
Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile
fluid.
a.
Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a
sterile production or author.
Sterile
Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile;
Usage Examples
Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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Other Usage ExamplesBecome 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.
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.
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.
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