"infertile" meaning in English

See infertile in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɪnˈfɜː(r)taɪl/ [UK], /ɪnˈfɝtɪl/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-infertile.wav [UK] Forms: infertile [positive], [comparative], [superlative]
Etymology: in- + fertile Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|in|fertile}} in- + fertile Head templates: {{adj}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If a person or animal is infertile, it cannot produce babies.
    Sense id: simple-infertile-en-adj-8-mAs-VF
  2. If land is infertile it can't grow healthy crops.
    Sense id: simple-infertile-en-adj-mlHwP8-Q
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms prefixed with in-
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Terms prefixed with in-",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "in",
        "2": "fertile"
      },
      "expansion": "in- + fertile",
      "name": "ety-prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "in- + fertile",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "infertile",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "–",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "–",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Two years after the second wedding, people began to worry that the king was infertile."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a person or animal is infertile, it cannot produce babies."
      ],
      "id": "simple-infertile-en-adj-8-mAs-VF"
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fertile"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If land is infertile it can't grow healthy crops."
      ],
      "id": "simple-infertile-en-adj-mlHwP8-Q"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈfɜː(r)taɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈfɝtɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-infertile.wav",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "infertile"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Terms prefixed with in-"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "in",
        "2": "fertile"
      },
      "expansion": "in- + fertile",
      "name": "ety-prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "in- + fertile",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "infertile",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "–",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "–",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Two years after the second wedding, people began to worry that the king was infertile."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If a person or animal is infertile, it cannot produce babies."
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fertile"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If land is infertile it can't grow healthy crops."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈfɜː(r)taɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈfɝtɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-infertile.wav",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "infertile"
}

Download raw JSONL data for infertile meaning in English (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2024-12-20 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.