| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor, exhausted |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, barren, beggared, broke, clean, depleted, destitute, distressed, drained, empty, flat broke, flat*, have-not, hurting, impecunious, indigent, insolvent, necessitous, needy, penurious, played out, poverty-stricken, reduced, ruined, spent, sterile, strapped |
| Antonyms: | enriched, full, plentiful, rich |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not bearing fruit, young |
| Synonyms: | barren, depleted, drained, effete, exhausted, impotent, impoverished, infecund, nonproductive, sterile, unbearing, unfertile, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Antonyms: | fertile, fruitful, potent, productive |
| Main Entry: | lifeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not living, not containing living things |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bare, barren, brute, cold, comatose, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, desert, empty, exanimate, extinct, faint, inanimate, inert, inorganic, insensate, insensible, late, out cold, sterile, unconscious, uninhabited, waste |
| Antonyms: | alive, animate, living |
| Main Entry: | poor |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, unfertile |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, depleted, exhausted, feeble, fruitless, impaired, imperfect, impoverished, indisposed, infertile, infirm, puny, sick, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive, worthless |
| Antonyms: | fertile, potent, strong |
| Main Entry: | pristine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean, pure; primeval |
| Synonyms: | earliest, early, first, immaculate, intact, natural, original, primal, purified, refined, sanitary, snowy, spotless, stainless, sterile, sterilized, taintless, unadulterated, uncorrupted, undebased, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, untouched, virginal, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | pure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean, uncontaminated |
| Synonyms: | disinfected, germ-free, immaculate, intemerate, pasteurized, pristine, purified, refined, sanitary, snowy, spotless, stainless, sterile, sterilized, taintless, unadulterated, unblemished, undebased, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | contaminated, dirty, polluted, tainted |
| Main Entry: | sanitary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean, germ-free |
| Synonyms: | healthful, healthy, hygienic, prophylactic, purified, salubrious, sanative, sterile, uncontaminated, uninfected, unpolluted, unsullied, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | dirty, diseased, polluted, unsanitary |
| Main Entry: | unadulterated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean, pure; unmixed |
| Synonyms: | immaculate, purified, refined, sanitary, spotless, stainless, sterile, sterilized, unblemished, uncontaminated, uncorrupted, undebased, undefiled, undiluted, unpolluted, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, untouched, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | uninspired |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | bromidic, commonplace, corny*, everyday, heavy-handed, humdrum, indifferent, old hat, ordinary, phoned in, ponderous, prosaic, stale, sterile, stock, uncreative, unexciting, unimaginative, unimpressed, uninspiring, uninteresting, uninventive, unmoved, yawn |
| Antonyms: | creative, inspired, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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