Sterile is valid Scrabble Word

Is sterile a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for STERILE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

incapable of producing offspring
not able to produce children or young
(of a plant) not able to produce fruit or seeds
(of land or soil) too poor in quality to produce crops
lacking in imagination, creativity, or excitement; uninspiring or unproductive
free from bacteria or other living microorganisms; totally clean
free from germs
Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.
Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.

Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.
incapable of reproducing
free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention

Words related to STERILE

sterilely12 sterility12

Words that contain STERILE

sterilely12 unsterile9 intersterile12

How to use STERILE in a sentence

Perhaps I have the more sympathy with them because they are despised by the farmer, and occupy sterile and neglected soil.
This is a remarkable instance of human culture turning the most hopelessly sterile portions of the world to account.
And there was yet a third part of the estate, acres upon acres of equally sterile soil, all sand and gravel, descending in a gentle slope to the embankment of the railway line.
Our road turned off to the right, and commenced ascending a long, dry glen between mountains which grew more sterile the further we went.
It was like coming from the grave, after the sterile deserts and bleak desolate plains of Northern Persia.
In the year 1808, a young female visited the grey, sterile mountain tract of Cefu Ogo, in Denbighshire, each day successively for two months.
It is surprising to see in a village lost among the sterile hills houses three stories high.
Nay, even in the cruel and sterile strength of Turkey, anyone with imagination can see something of the tragedy and therefore of the tenderness of true belief.
I saw the forty years of probable existence in front of me flat and sterile as the sea itself.
Next day we continued our route direct South, through scenery of the same rugged and sterile description as that we had passed on the way hither.

A curious fact is that the offspring of such unions are themselves sterile almost without exception.
If Rimsky-Korsakoff was not absolutely sterile, it was because his intellectual quality itself was vivacious and brilliant.
The very first day we took samples from their water carts they were all sterile, and there were no complaints about taste.
No wonder that La Rochefoucauld has been generally regarded as a scourge of the human race, a sterile critic of mankind without sympathy or pity.
The workers or sterile females, though most energetic and courageous in capturing slaves, do no other work.
First crosses between forms sufficiently distinct to be ranked as species, and their hybrids, are very generally, but not universally, sterile.
On the whole, the neighbourhood of Jerusalem is very desolate, barren, and sterile.
She felt that it was good even when the knife was not sterile.
The advance was now conducted by forced marches through a painfully sterile country.
How and when the forests disappeared, whether by fire or otherwise, and how soil so peculiarly sterile could have nourished the finest of trees, are matters always in dispute.
But judgment may prove a sterile capacity if it is not accompanied by industry.
He went up again to the top of the hill, and spent the rest of the day in cutting down one of the sterile palm trees, which the night before had served him for shelter.

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