(a.) Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.

acarpous arid barren celibate childless depleted desert desolate drained dried-up dry dull earthbound effete exhausted fallow fruitless gaunt gelded impotent impoverished ineffectual infecund issueless jejune leached literal menopausal mundane nonfertile nonproducing nonproductive nonprolific parasitize prosaic prosing prosy sine prole staid sterile stolid stuffy sucked dry teemless uncultivated unfanciful unfertile unfruitful unideal unimaginative uninspired uninventive unoriginal unplowed unpoetic unproductive unprolific unromantic unromanticized unsown untilled virgin waste wasted without issue