Clues for the word "STERILE"
We've had 59 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 189 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on October 14, 2025.
Definition of sterile
- a. - Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.
- 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.
- a. - Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.
- a. - Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.
Referring Clues
- Lacking originality
- Like a mule
- Unyielding
- Unproductive
- Germ-free
- Germless
- Barren
- Unfruitful
- Not being productive
- Fruitless
- More than just clean
- Like a mule, usually
- Like operating rooms
- Hospital-clean
- Free from bacteria
- Clinically clean
- Germfree
- Fit to be used in an operating room
- Without germs
- Free of germs
- Like most mules
- Like surgical tools
- Like the OR
- Like a scalpel
- Antiseptic
- Fresh from the autoclave
- Aseptic
- "The ___ Cuckoo" (1969 Liza Minnelli film)
- Disinfected
- Clean and then some
- Producing zip
- Unimaginative
- Like good operating rooms
- Free from germs
- Like sealed medical supplies
- Squeaky clean, as hospital supplies
- Unbearable?
- Reptiles, not soft but awkwardly unproductive
- Maybe Lister had a point making things so
- No issue is sure when this queen is in step
- Lacking potentialilty of sire, let off
- A few steps required to keep emergency room bug-free
- Completely clean
- Unproductive poster I left hidden
- Listener stirred with no end of emotion - that's how theatre should be
- Article dropped from earliest revision though perfectly clean
- Uninspired
- Disinfected, like surgical tools
- Uncontaminated
- Clean, like surgical tools
- Like surgical tools, hopefully
- How a bandage should be
- Unevocative of emotion
- Infertile
- Prepared for surgery, in a way
- Beyond clean
- Lifelessly dull
- Like operating room instruments
- Bacteria-free
Last Seen In
- New York Times - October 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 10, 2025
- Daily American - September 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 01, 2025
- Daily American - May 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 02, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 29, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 02, 2025
- New York Times - November 08, 2024
- Family Time - November 04, 2024
- Daily American - October 31, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 01, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 23, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 19, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 13, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 23, 2024
- Your Life Choices - July 19, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 15, 2024
- Your Life Choices - July 11, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - June 29, 2024
- Daily American - June 29, 2024
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