stérile

See also: sterile

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sterilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste.ʁil/

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Adjective

stérile (plural stériles)

1. sterile, barren, unprolific, infertile

   Synonym: infécond

   Antonyms: fertile, fécond

2. (medicine) sterile, sterilized

   chambre stérile ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (figuratively) vain, pointless; unproductive

Derived terms

• stérilement
• stérilet
• stériliser
• stérilité

Descendants

• → Dutch: steriel

Further reading

• “stérile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012