sterile
US: /ˈstɛɹəɫ/
UK: /stˈɛɹaɪl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
sterile /'sterail/- tính từ
- cằn cỗi, khô cằn
- sterile land: đất cằn cỗi
- không sinh sản, không sinh đẻ, hiếm hoi
- vô ích, không kết quả
- sterile effort: sự cố gắng vô ích
- vô trùng
- nghèo nàn, khô khan (văn học)
- cằn cỗi, khô cằn
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective1 (of humans or animals) not able to produce children or young animals
Synonym: INFERTILE
Compare: FERTILE
2 completely clean and free from bacteria: sterile bandages / equipment + sterile water
3 (of a discussion, an argument, etc.) not producing any useful result: a sterile debate
4 lacking individual personality, imagination or new ideas: The room felt cold and sterile. + He felt creatively and emotionally sterile.
5 (of land) not good enough to produce crops
sterility noun [U]: The disease can cause sterility in men and women. + the meaningless sterility of statistics + She contemplated the sterility of her life.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 barren, fruitless, unfruitful, childless, unproductive, infertile, infecund:
The first great disappointment of Napoleon's life was that Josephine was sterile.
2 pure, aseptic, uninfected, unpolluted, uncontaminated, disinfected, sanitary, sterilized, germ-free, antiseptic:
Make sure that you always use a sterile bandage for a wound.
3 barren, unproductive, stale, effete:
Vanessa's greatest fear was that her mind would become sterile and she would run out of ideas.
Collocation
1 completely clean
VERBS
be | become | remain | make sth | keep sth
This top fits over the bottle and keeps the teat sterile.
ADV.
completely | virtually
2 not able to produce young animals/babies
VERBS
be | become | remain | leave sb, make sb
ADV.
permanently
Male workers were made permanently sterile by this pesticide.
3 with no interest or life
VERBS
be | become, grow
Their relationship had grown sterile over the years.
ADV.
very | increasingly
the increasingly sterile debate on constitutional reform
| largely | rather, somewhat
Concise dictionary
'sterəl /'steraɪladj.
+incapable of reproducing
+free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
+deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
