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sterile
Synonyms and Antonyms of sterile
- sterile couples sometimes choose to adopt needy children
- the apple tree turned out to be sterile, never yielding a crop of apples
- the hospitals in the war-torn city often lack necessary drugs and sterile surgical supplies
antibacterial, antibiotic, antiseptic, germicidal, microbicidal
clean, immaculate, pristine, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, squeaky-clean, stainless, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied
beneficial, healthful, healthy, restorative, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, wholesome
pure, taintless, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted
abluted, bleached, cleansed, purified, scrubbed, washed, whitened
infectious, miasmic, pathogenetic, pathogenic, poisonous, sickening, toxic
bedraggled, besmirched, dingy, dirty, draggled, dusty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty, smirched, soiled, sordid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly, unwashed
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