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  • 71wasted — Synonyms and related words: Sanforized, ablated, acarpous, arid, atrophied, attenuated, ausgespielt, bankrupt, barren, blasted, blighted, brittle, broken, burned out, burnt up, by the board, cadaverous, celibate, childless, consumed, corky,… …

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  • 72barren — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. infertile, unprofitable, unproductive; sterile; stark, bare. See uselessness.Ant., fertile. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Incapable of producing young] Syn. sterile, impotent, infertile, childless; see …

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  • 73infertile — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sterile, barren, impotent, fruitless; see sterile 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at sterile . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. barren, sterile, unproductive, unfruitful, infecund, impotent, depleted, exhausted, fallow. ANT …

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  • 74Unproductiveness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Unproductiveness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 unproductiveness unproductiveness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 infertility infertility sterility infecundity Sgm: N 1 impotence impotence &c. 158 Sgm: N 1 unprofitableness unpr …

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  • 75fecundity — The biological capacity for reproduction of individuals or populations. In demography, fecundity (as the potential for childbearing) is contrasted with fertility , or actual childbearing. The infecund are those who cannot have children though… …

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  • 76arid — a. 1. Dry, dried up, parched with heat, parched, unfertile, barren, sterile. 2. Dry, uninteresting, dull, pointless, jejune, unsuggestive, barren, infecund …

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  • 77fruitless — a. 1. Unfruitful, unproductive, barren, sterile, unprolific, unfertile, infecund, acarpous. 2. Useless, unavailing, bootless, profitless, ineffectual, unprofitable, barren, vain, idle, futile, abortive, without avail …

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  • 78sterile — a. 1. Barren, unfruitful, unproductive, unprolific, jejune, poor, bare, dry, empty. 2. Barren, unproductive, unprolific, infecund, unfruitful. 3. (Bot.) Acarpous, staminate, male …

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  • 79unfruitful — a. 1. Barren, fruitless, acarpous, sterile. 2. Barren, unprolific, sterile, infecund. 3. Fruitless, unprofitable, unproductive, barren. 4. Unproductive, barren, unprolific, sterile, unfertile, fruitless …

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  • 80addle — I. a. 1. Addled, spoiled (as eggs), rotten, putrid, corrupt. 2. Barren, unfruitful, fruitless, abortive, unproductive, unprolific, unfertile, sterile, infecund, addled. II. v. a. 1. Corrupt, spoil, render barren. See preceding. 2. Accumulate… …

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