English-French translations for sterile

• stérile
  Nos ports de pêche sont stériles. Our fishing ports are sterile.
  La raison sans la passion est stérile, la passion sans la raison est explosive. Reason without passion is sterile, passion without reason is heat.
  Elle estime que ces eaux désormais stériles valent 86 millions d'euros pas an. It does not think that these now sterile waters are worth EUR 86 million a year.

Definition of sterile

• Unable to reproduce (or procreate
• Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking
• germless#English|Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms
• Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint

Examples

• a sterile kitchen table

Related words

• sterilization
• sterilize
• sterilized