Adjective: infertile
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more infertile |
| Superlative | most infertile |
Sample Sentences
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The soil was too infertile to grow crops.
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The couple sought medical advice for infertile conditions.
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Deserts are often infertile and unable to support vegetation.
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The soil was so infertile that most vegetation could hardly survive, but the area was an orchid paradise. [1989, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 553:]
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Sometimes hormone therapy does the trick, but many infertile couples require more sophisticated manipulation of sperm and eggs. [2002 April 15, Laura Bradford, “Three Ways To Give Nature A Helping Hand”, in TIME, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2011:]
Adjectives inflected like infertile
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle French infertile, from Late Latin infertilis, equivalent to in- + fertile.
Verbs referencing "infertile"
Finnish Adjectives
infertiili.