- arid; sterile
- неплоден; сув; стерилен
English-Macedonian dictionary. 2013.
arid; sterile
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sterile — sterile, barren, impotent, unfruitful, infertile mean not having or not manifesting the power to produce offspring or to bear literal or figurative fruit. Sterile, opposed to fertile, in its basic application to living things implies an inability … New Dictionary of Synonyms
arid — *dry Analogous words: barren, infertile, *sterile, unfruitful: *bare, bald, barren: desiccated, dehydrated, parched (see DRY) Antonyms: moist: verdant Contrasted words: *wet, damp, dank, humid: * … New Dictionary of Synonyms
sterile — [adj] unproductive, clean antiseptic, arid, aseptic, bare, barren, bleak, dead, decontaminated, desert, desolate, disinfected, dry, effete, empty, fallow, fruitless, futile, gaunt, germ free, hygienic, impotent, infecund, infertile, pasteurized,… … New thesaurus
sterile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. barren, unproductive, unfruitful, unfertile; aseptic, germ free. See uselessness, cleanness.Ant., fertile, fruitful, unsterile. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Incapable of producing young] Syn.… … English dictionary for students
sterile — adjective Etymology: Middle English steryle, from Latin sterilis; akin to Gothic stairo barren animal, Sanskrit starī sterile cow Date: 15th century 1. a. failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores b. failing to produce or… … New Collegiate Dictionary
arid — aridity /euh rid i tee/, aridness, n. aridly, adv. /ar id/, adj. 1. being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate. 2. barren or unproductive because of lack of moisture: arid farmland. 3. lacking interest or… … Universalium
arid — adjective 1) an arid landscape Syn: dry, dried up, bone dry, waterless, moistureless, parched, scorched, baked, thirsty, droughty, desert; barren, infertile See note at dry … Thesaurus of popular words
arid — ar•id [[t]ˈær ɪd[/t]] adj. 1) extremely dry; parched: arid land[/ex] 2) barren or unproductive due to lack of moisture: arid farmland[/ex] 3) lacking vitality or imagination; sterile • Etymology: 1645–55; (< F) < L āridus=ār(ēre) to be dry… … From formal English to slang
arid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dry, parched; jejune, barren; uninteresting. See dryness, weariness, uselessness. Ant., moist, verdant; interesting. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Dry] Syn. dry, parched, desert, dried; see dry 1 . 2.… … English dictionary for students
arid — adj 1. parched, extremely dry, thirsty, moistureless, waterless, Chem. anhydrous; droughty, without rain, torrid, burning; baked, roasted, toasted, burnt; scorched, singed, charred, blistered; dried up, withered, sere, shriveled, shrunken;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
arid — Synonyms and related words: Saharan, academic, acarpous, anhydrous, athirst, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bone dry, bookish, boring, bromidic, celibate, characterless, childless, cold, colorless, dead, desert, desolate, dismal, drab, draggy,… … Moby Thesaurus
