Sterile /(?)/

Ster·ile

Sterile

a.
  1. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.
  2. Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens. (Biol.)
  3. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.