sterile

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈstɛɹaɪl/    美 /ˈstɛɹəl/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Unable to reproduce (or procreate). not-comparable
    — According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.
  2. Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking. figuratively
  3. Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive. figuratively
  4. Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.
    — a sterile kitchen table
  5. Permanently uninhabitable (as in a planet like Earth) to all life, including even microbes.
  6. Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint.
  7. Of weapons: foreign-made and untraceable to the United States. US
    — An early CIA decision was to bring war surplus in Europe to the United States, rather than let it fall into the hands of left-wing movements. Some of the guns would also, it was reasoned, be useful as "sterile" weapons (foreign-made and untraceable to the United States) to be provided secretly to foreign friends.

词形变化

more sterile comparative most sterile superlative

词汇关系

近义词
fruitless sterile
反义词
fertile non-sterile nonsterile unsterile fecund fruitful potent productive
下位词
impotent
衍生词
anti-sterile-neutrino intersterile self-sterile semisterile sterilant sterile antineutrino sterilely sterileness sterile neutrino sterile oat steripipette ultrasterile
相关词
sterilisation sterilization sterilise sterilize sterilised sterilized sterility castrated castrato emasculate neuter

词源

From Middle French stérile, from Latin sterilis (“barren, futile”). See also Ancient Greek στεῖρα (steîra).
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