Crossword-Solution: STERILE 7 letters, 100 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Sterile a. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful;
unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a
sterile year.
Sterile a. Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of
offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a
sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
Sterile a. Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile
fluid.
Sterile a. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a
sterile production or author.

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STERILE anagram LEISTER, RETILES

We have 100 clues for the answer “STERILE”

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Fresh from the autoclave 1 answer
Like most mules 1 answer
Like many labs 1 answer
Like many houses in "Black Mirror" episodes 1 answer
Like good operating rooms 1 answer
Like an unopened Band-Aid 1 answer
Like a surgeon's hands 1 answer
Like a mule, usually 1 answer
Lifelessly dull 1 answer
How a bandage should be 1 answer
aseptic free from bacteria 1 answer
Fit to be used in an operating room 1 answer
Disinfected, like surgical tools 1 answer
Clinically clean 1 answer
Clean, like surgical tools 1 answer
Beyond clean 1 answer
Barren of ideas. 1 answer
As clean as a doctor's instruments 1 answer
"The ___ Cuckoo," Pakula film 1 answer
"The ___ Cuckoo" (1969) 1 answer
Like sealed medical supplies 1 answer
asceptic free from bacteria 1 answer
Without issue 1 answer
Without germs 1 answer
Useless; ineffective 1 answer
Unevocative of emotion 1 answer
Ultraclean, as a lab 1 answer
The ___ Cuckoo (1969 Liza Minnelli film) 1 answer
Superclean, as surgical tools 1 answer
Squeaky clean, as hospital supplies 1 answer
Squeaky clean, as an operating room 1 answer
Producing zip 1 answer
Prepared for surgery, in a way 1 answer
Not being productive 1 answer
Like the OR 1 answer
Like surgical tools, hopefully 1 answer
Like surgical tools 1 answer
Like operating rooms 1 answer
Germless 2 answers
Clean, and then some 2 answers
More than clean 2 answers
Disinfected 2 answers
Like a scalpel 2 answers
More than just clean 2 answers
More than dull 2 answers
Like a Mule 2 answers
Ready for surgery, perhaps 2 answers
Lacking in interest 2 answers
Free from bacteria 2 answers
Free from germs 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STERILE (5)

The shallows in the characters of ordinary men were sterile strands in his, but his depths were so profound as to be practically bottomless.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The spotlessly groomed image of Steve Billings in white tennis shorts and a "Save the Whales" tank-top eclectically co-existed with the sterile surroundings of the mammoth super computer center.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Dunno but what he's about the pleasantest man I ever did see." He was not letting his wife see in his averted face the struggle that revealed itself there--the struggle of stalwart achievement not to feel flattered at the notice of sterile elegance, not to be sneakingly glad of its amiability, but to stand up and look at it with eyes on the same level.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008
For three long years they will not sow Or root or seedling there: For three long years the unblessed spot Will sterile be and bare, And look upon the wondering sky With unreproachful stare.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1995
They compel her to produce out of season, and when sterile she is made to take medicine in order to produce again.
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman 2008

Quotes with STERILE (3)

He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an …
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better. It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the…
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady
When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker downin tall grasses, and even elephantslumber after safety. When great trees fallin forests, small things recoil into silence, their senseseroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomeslight, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see witha hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind wordsunsaid, promised walksnever taken.…
Maya Angelou
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 143 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).