413 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ stˈɛɹa͡ɪl], [ stˈɛɹa‍ɪl], [ s_t_ˈɛ_ɹ_aɪ_l]

Similar words for sterile:

• antiseptic (adjective)
• barren (adjective)
• clean (adjective)
• dead (adjective)
• desert (adjective)
• effete (adjective)
• fruitless (adjective)
• futile (adjective)
• hygienic (adjective)
• impotent (adjective)
• impoverished (adjective)
• inadequate (adjective)
• infertile (adjective)
• jejune (adjective)
• lifeless (adjective)
• no-account (adjective)
• no-good (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• otiose (adjective)
• poor (adjective)
• pristine (adjective)
• pure (adjective)
• sanitary (adjective)
• sterile (adjective)
• unadulterated (adjective)
• uninspired (adjective)
• unprofitable (adjective)
• vain (adjective)
• void (adjective)
• worthless (adjective)
• aseptic (noun)
• fertile (noun)
• infertility (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• sterile (noun)
• defeated (verb)
• other synonyms
• barren

How to use "sterile" in context?

Paraphrases for sterile

Homophones for sterile

Synonyms for Sterile:

• adj.

  • antiseptic (adjective)
  • germicidal,
  • sterile,
  • germ-destroying,
  • Medicated,
  • bactericidal,
  • prophylactic,
  • antibiotic,
  • antibacterial,
  • purifying,
  • germfree,
  • clean,
  • disinfectant,
  • germ-free,
  • unpolluted,
  • Sterilizing.
  • barren (adjective)
  • depleted,
  • parched.
  • clean (adjective)
  • refined,
  • squeaky-clean,
  • neat,
  • hygienic,
  • fastidious,
  • stainless,
  • fresh,
  • unsoiled,
  • orderly,
  • purity,
  • immaculate,
  • spotless,
  • spick-and-span,
  • straight,
  • tidy,
  • unsullied,
  • Taintless,
  • unstained,
  • polished,
  • gleaming.
  • dead (adjective)
  • inoperable,
  • gone,
  • extinct,
  • still,
  • departed,
  • unemployed,
  • useless,
  • inactive,
  • spent,
  • wearied,
  • stagnant,
  • tired,
  • worn,
  • defunct,
  • exhausted,
  • worn out,
  • lost,
  • obsolete,
  • vanished,
  • inoperative,
  • bygone.
  • desert (adjective)
  • solitary,
  • wild,
  • lonely,
  • uninhabited.
  • effete (adjective)
  • more unprolific,
  • un-prolific,
  • un prolific,
  • most unprolific,
  • unprolific.
  • fruitless (adjective)
  • ineffective,
  • unavailing,
  • wild goose chase,
  • idle,
  • abortive,
  • unavailable,
  • profitless,
  • pointless,
  • ineffectual.
  • futile (adjective)
  • bootless,
  • unneeded,
  • impractical,
  • unimportant,
  • impracticable,
  • valueless,
  • delusive,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • nugatory,
  • hollow,
  • trifling,
  • unsubstantial,
  • forlorn,
  • trivial,
  • unreal,
  • insufficient,
  • otiose.
  • hygienic (adjective)
  • healthy,
  • salubrious,
  • healthful,
  • salutary,
  • good,
  • wholesome.
  • impotent (adjective)
  • inept,
  • impotent,
  • dud,
  • incompetent,
  • weak,
  • feeble,
  • forceless,
  • frail,
  • incapable,
  • nerveless,
  • paper tiger,
  • enfeebled,
  • gutless,
  • incapacitated,
  • powerless,
  • prostrate,
  • in firm,
  • infirm,
  • enervated,
  • paralyzed,
  • helpless,
  • crippled.
  • impoverished (adjective)
  • in-solvent,
  • most hurting,
  • most beggared,
  • penurious,
  • more beggared,
  • dis tressed,
  • have not,
  • poverty stricken,
  • more have not,
  • most have-not,
  • most havenot,
  • povertystricken,
  • more hurting,
  • havenot,
  • in solvent,
  • dis-tressed,
  • more have-not,
  • more havenot,
  • most have not.
  • inadequate (adjective)
  • minus,
  • most stinted,
  • in apter,
  • junker,
  • un equal,
  • glitcher,
  • in complete,
  • in adequate,
  • inconsiderable,
  • un qualified,
  • junkest,
  • incomplete,
  • in appreciable,
  • in-considerable,
  • glitchest,
  • in-commensurate,
  • in-adequate,
  • in-complete,
  • too little,
  • more stinted,
  • in-substantial,
  • in aptest,
  • more lemon,
  • in substantial,
  • in-aptest,
  • most lemon,
  • bushleague,
  • most niggardly,
  • in-appreciable,
  • in commensurate,
  • un-equal,
  • lemon,
  • in-apter,
  • un-qualified,
  • more niggardly,
  • in considerable.
  • infertile (adjective)
  • in-fertile,
  • non productive,
  • most nonproductive,
  • more nonproductive,
  • in fertile.
  • jejune (adjective)
  • in sipid,
  • in-sipid,
  • in nocuous,
  • in-nocuous.
  • lifeless (adjective)
  • in organic,
  • in sensate,
  • in-organic,
  • de ceased,
  • in-animate,
  • in sensible,
  • more exanimate,
  • in-sensate,
  • in-sensible,
  • ex-animate,
  • un-conscious,
  • in animate,
  • ex animate,
  • de-ceased,
  • un conscious,
  • most exanimate.
  • no-account (adjective)
  • Drossy.
  • no-good (adjective)
  • no good,
  • nogood.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • fruitless,
  • no dice,
  • to no avail,
  • Resultless,
  • Beggared,
  • unfruitful,
  • on treadmill,
  • sanative,
  • inadequate,
  • poor,
  • pure,
  • in vain,
  • save one's breath,
  • unfertile,
  • flat broke,
  • nonproductive,
  • barren,
  • sanitary,
  • void,
  • exanimate,
  • non-productive,
  • unratified,
  • impoverished,
  • on a treadmill,
  • childless,
  • counterproductive,
  • not viable,
  • Salutiferous,
  • acarpous,
  • unsanctioned,
  • unprofitable,
  • no effect,
  • desert,
  • infertile,
  • not enough,
  • Gainless,
  • untilled,
  • unenforceable,
  • unproductive,
  • Infecund,
  • worthless,
  • out cold,
  • uninspired,
  • unadulterated,
  • futile,
  • found wanting,
  • uninfected,
  • played out,
  • uncontaminated,
  • niggardly,
  • Unbearing,
  • spinning one's wheels,
  • vain,
  • uncultivable,
  • no-good,
  • dead,
  • no-account,
  • no purpose,
  • jejune,
  • to no effect,
  • no avail,
  • counter-productive,
  • to no purpose,
  • out the window,
  • pristine.
  • otiose (adjective)
  • sur plusser,
  • sur-plussest,
  • sur-plusser,
  • sur plussest,
  • most laggard.
  • poor (adjective)
  • poorer.
  • pristine (adjective)
  • Undebased,
  • unspotted.
  • pure (adjective)
  • more intemerate,
  • more pasteurized,
  • Intemerate,
  • un-blemished,
  • pasteurized,
  • most pasteurized,
  • most intemerate.
  • sanitary (adjective)
  • more sanative,
  • most sanative.
  • sterile (adjective)
  • empty,
  • fallow,
  • bare,
  • desolate,
  • septic,
  • waste,
  • gaunt,
  • bleak,
  • Disinfected,
  • without issue,
  • decontaminated.
  • unadulterated (adjective)
  • un diluted,
  • un-adulterated,
  • un defiled,
  • un-defiled,
  • un adulterated,
  • un-diluted.
  • uninspired (adjective)
  • unimpressed,
  • phoned in,
  • yawner.
  • unprofitable (adjective)
  • unrewarding,
  • unlucrative,
  • unremunerative,
  • frustaneous.
  • vain (adjective)
  • Shucker,
  • unnotable,
  • no-win,
  • time-wasting,
  • going nowhere,
  • not a prayer,
  • in vicious circle.
  • void (adjective)
  • un enforceable,
  • most avoided,
  • most unratified,
  • more negated,
  • most unsanctioned,
  • more unconfirmed,
  • more voided,
  • more unsanctioned,
  • most voided,
  • in-valid,
  • null and void,
  • most negated,
  • Voided,
  • unconfirmed,
  • un sanctioned,
  • un-enforceable,
  • more avoided,
  • un-confirmed,
  • most unconfirmed,
  • in valid,
  • un ratified,
  • more unratified,
  • un confirmed,
  • more unenforceable,
  • most unenforceable,
  • un-sanctioned,
  • un-ratified,
  • null void.
  • worthless (adjective)
  • in-consequential,
  • most nothing,
  • in utile,
  • counter productive,
  • more nothing,
  • in consequential,
  • un-usable,
  • more counterproductive,
  • in-utile,
  • good for nothing,
  • most good for nothing,
  • un-essential,
  • more good for nothing,
  • more good-for-nothing,
  • un usable,
  • most good-for-nothing,
  • un essential,
  • most counterproductive.

• n.

  •
  • stalemated,
  • uninspiring,
  • stale,
  • under negotiation,
  • shallow,
  • on everyone's lips,
  • Debating.
  •
  • arid.
  •
  • excite.
  • aseptic (noun)
  • aseptic.
  • fertile (noun)
  • rich.
  • infertility (noun)
  • fruitlesses,
  • in fertility,
  • in-fertility,
  • in-fertilities,
  • in fertilities,
  • steriles.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • antiseptic,
  • characteristic.
  • sterile (noun)
  • unimaginative,
  • uninventive,
  • uncreative.

• v.

  • defeated (verb)
  • unsuccessful.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • round table,
  • sanitized,
  • infertility,
  • sterilized,
  • dry,
  • unoriginal.
  •
  • fertility,
  • matter of fact,
  • harmless,
  • effete,
  • pedestrian,
  • inhospitable,
  • stodgy,
  • earthbound.
  •
  • heated,
  • spiritless,
  • lackluster,
  • flavorless,
  • lusterless,
  • lively,
  • prosaic,
  • colorless.
  •
  • drab,
  • lifeless.
  •
  • flat.
  •
  • dull.
  • barren
  • neuter.

How to use "Sterile" in context?

Paraphrases for Sterile:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    infertile.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    clean, inconclusive, isolated, pointless, useless, wasteful, Disinfected, Disinfecting, non-viable.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Tailings.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    fruitless, futile, unhelpful, germ-free.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    sterility.

Homophones for Sterile:

• sisterly, sidereal, sectral, stairwell, ski trail, show trial, suctorial, sectorial, statutory law, sterol, southerly, sweet roll, stroll.