| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Lacking or unable to produce growing plants or crops: barren, infertile, unfruitful, unproductive. See RICH. 2. Unable to produce offspring: barren, childless, impotent, infertile, unfruitful. See RICH. 3. Lacking liveliness, charm, or surprise: arid, aseptic, colorless, drab, dry, dull, earthbound, flat, flavorless, lackluster, lifeless, lusterless, matter-of-fact, pedestrian, prosaic, spiritless, stodgy, unimaginative, uninspired. See EXCITE. 4. Free or freed from microorganisms: sanitized, sterilized. See CLEAN. 5. Lacking originality: uncreative, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal. See RICH.
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