as in barren
producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation
struggling to make a living with the region's unfertile fields
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Recent Examples of unfertile
Movies based on videogames, once unfertile IP for Hollywood at the box office, have blossomed in recent years.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 June 2025
Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfertile
Adjective
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Several cattle grazed in the distance, but the barren land by the road seemed abandoned.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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Hundreds of booths stand barren behind a chain-link fence, mostly stripped to their skeletal remains and covered in fabric or tarp.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
3 July 2025
Adjective
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The flyer featured a photograph of the 31-year-old singer-songwriter on a desolate small-town street, behind the wheel of a vintage turquoise vehicle.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2026
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In 1966, the middle of a football pitch was a yawning abyss, a desolate landscape for the ball to gaze down on from its aisle seat at 30,000ft (maybe the ball is listening to a first-gen iPod).—
John Muller,
New York Times,
6 June 2026
Adjective
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Transposing the book onto a contemporary setting, Jude’s take centers on an impoverished Romanian migrant, Gianina, played by a sensational Ana Dumitrașcu, who finds work as a housekeeper and au pair for a smugly bourgeois-bohemian couple living in Bordeaux.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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To ease the financial burden on the most impoverished, the government said tax exemptions would apply to micro-enterprises and those earning less than $680 a month.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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If poor flowering persists year after year, consider planting a different variety of tomatoes that better suits your climate.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
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The only question now is how much of the public's time and money the Mayor is willing to waste to obscure the numerous poor decisions her administration and the County have made for decades.—
Manuel Bojorquez,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Unfertile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfertile. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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