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Synonyms & Antonyms of unfertile
producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation
- struggling to make a living with the region's unfertile fields
Synonyms for unfertile
- barren,
- bony
- (also boney),
- dead,
- desolate,
- hardscrabble,
- impoverished,
- infertile,
- poor,
- stark,
- unproductive,
- waste
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The first known use of unfertile was in 1596
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