unfertile

adjective

un·​fer·​tile ˌən-ˈfər-tᵊl 

 chiefly British  -ˌtī(-ə)l

: not fertile : infertile

unfertile land

Synonyms

• barren
• bony
• boney
• dead
• desolate
• hardscrabble
• impoverished
• infertile
• poor
• stark
• unproductive
• waste

Examples of unfertile in a Sentence

struggling to make a living with the region's unfertile fields

Word History

First Known Use

1596, in the meaning defined above