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  • 81barren — adjective 1) barren land Syn: unproductive, infertile, unfruitful, sterile, arid, desert See note at naked Ant: fertile 2) archaic a barren woman …

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  • 82infertile — adjective 1) infertile soil Syn: barren, unfruitful, unproductive; sterile, impoverished, arid 2) she was infertile Syn: sterile, barren; childless, unable to procreate/reproduce, impotent; Medicine in …

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  • 83arid — adj 1. parched, extremely dry, thirsty, moistureless, waterless, Chem. anhydrous; droughty, without rain, torrid, burning; baked, roasted, toasted, burnt; scorched, singed, charred, blistered; dried up, withered, sere, shriveled, shrunken;… …

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  • 84barren — adj 1. childless, sterile, infertile, unpro lific, infecund, agenetic, unprocreant, Bot. acarpous, (of cows) farrow, impotent, effete. 2. unproductive, unyielding, unfructuous, unfruitful, fruitless; uncultivable, uncultivatable, fallow;… …

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  • 85effete — adj 1. weakened, enfeebled, enervated, devitalized, drained, worn out, used up, played out, burned out, spent; weak, feeble, powerless. 2. decadent, degenerate, corrupt, dissolute, dissipated, depraved, debauched, deteriorated, degraded, debased …

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  • 86fruitless — adj 1. futile, vain, idle, unavailing, abortive, bootless, worthless, useless; ineffectual, ineffective, inefficacious; unproductive, unyielding, unprofitable, profitless, unremunerative, unrewarding, unpaying, gainless; unsuccessful, Inf. no go …

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  • 87infertile — adj unfruitful, infecund, barren, unproductive, fallow, effete, sterile; fruitless, unfructuous, Bot. acarpous, arid; impotent, unprolific, childless …

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  • 88poor — adj 1. destitute, poverty stricken, impoverished, penurious, impecunious, beggared, pauperized; penniless, indigent, poor as Job s turkey, needy, necessitous, bad off, badly off; pinched, straitened, distressed, Inf. strapped, Inf. up against it …

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  • 89shy — I adj 1. bashful, diffident, retiring, reserved, backward, unconfident, Archaic. verecund, Scot, and North Eng. blate; shrinking, withdrawn, distant, Inf. introverted, unsocial, unsociable; modest, meek, demure, coy; self conscious, constrained;… …

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  • 90sterile — adj 1. pure, sterilized, harmless, uninfected, disinfected, germfree, sanitary, aseptic, uncontam inated, unpolluted, antiseptic. 2. unfruitful, fruitless, unproductive, unyielding; childless, barren, abortive, fallow, infecund, infertile,… …

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