infertile

/ɪnˈfʌrdl/

/ɪnˈfʌtəl/

Someone who's infertile isn't able to have children. Plants and animals, as well as humans, are sometimes infertile and can't reproduce naturally.

People who are trying to have a baby may find they're unable to because one of them is infertile, or not able to conceive. A woman who's infertile may instead be unable to carry a baby to term. Infertile is a French word, from the Latin infertilis, "unfruitful," from the roots in-, "not," and fertilis, "bearing in abundance."

Definitions of infertile

1. adjective

   incapable of reproducing
   “an infertile couple”

   synonyms: sterile, unfertile

   barren

   not bearing offspring

   sterilised, sterilized

   made infertile

   unfertilised, unfertilized, unimpregnated

   not having been fertilized

   unfruitful

   not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production

   impotent

   lacking power or ability

   unproductive

   not producing or capable of producing