| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A tract of unproductive land. Often used in plural: badlands, desert1, waste, wasteland, wilderness. See RICH. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Lacking or unable to produce growing plants or crops: infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive. See RICH. 2. Unable to produce offspring: childless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful. See RICH. 3. Not having a desirable element: destitute, devoid, empty, innocent, lacking, void, wanting. Idioms: in want of. See FULL. 4. Having no useful result: bootless, fruitless, futile, unavailing, unprofitable, unsuccessful, useless, vain. Idioms: in vain. See THRIVE, USED.
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