Antonyms for fertile
ˈfɜr tl; esp. Brit. -taɪlfer·tile

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1. fertileadjective

   Antonyms:
   infertile

2. fertileadjective

   Antonyms:
   infertile

3. fertileadjective

   Antonyms:
   infertile

4. fertileadjective

   Antonyms:
   infertile

5. fertileadjective

   Antonyms:
   infertile

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fertile

   Antonyms:
   poor, sterile, barren, unproductive, ineffective, inconducive, fruitless, inoperative, uninventive, unimaginative

   Synonyms:
   rich, luxuriant, teeming, productive, exuberant, causative, conducive, pregnant, fraught, prolific, fecund, fruitful, ingenious, inventive

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.5 / 4 votes

1. fertileadjective

   capable of reproducing

   Antonyms:
   sterilised, sterile, barren, unfruitful, unproductive, unfertile, sterilized, infertile, unfertilized, unfertilised, unimpregnated

   Synonyms:
   prolific, productive, fecund, rich, fat

2. fecund, fertile, prolificadjective

   intellectually productive

   "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"

   Antonyms:
   sterilized, unfertilized, unfertilised, sterilised, barren, unfruitful, infertile, unproductive, unfertile, unimpregnated, sterile

   Synonyms:
   prolific, fat, fecund, productive, rich

3. prolific, fertileadjective

   bearing in abundance especially offspring

   "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree"

   Antonyms:
   unproductive, unfertile, unimpregnated, unfruitful, sterile, infertile, unfertilized, sterilised, barren, unfertilised, sterilized

   Synonyms:
   prolific, fat, fecund, productive, rich

4. fat, fertile, productive, richadjective

   marked by great fruitfulness

   "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"

   Antonyms:
   unfertile, unproductive, unfertilised, barren, unfruitful, unfertilized, sterilised, infertile, sterile, sterilized, unimpregnated

   Synonyms:
   fat, fecund, fatty, generative, robust, full-bodied, juicy, copious, deep, plentiful, racy, productive, ample, rich, prolific, plenteous

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1. fertileadjective

   Antonyms:
   infertile infecund, barren

   Synonyms:
   fruitful, fecund, pistillate

How to use fertile in a sentence?

1. Steve Maraboli:

   In this busy world, we should never be a stranger to love and compassion. It is the fertile soil in the garden of peace."

2. Primo Levi:

   In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

3. Daniel Ives:

   Real-time communication has become a focus of customer-facing organisations to get a comprehensive view of a given customer, speed and accuracy are integral, opening up a fertile market opportunity for vendors in this area.

4. Daniel Hooper:

   Most gynandromorph individuals are infertile, but this one may actually be fertile as the left side is female, and only the left ovary in birds is functional.

5. Ben Stein:

   Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

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