Sterile and Unable

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Sterile adjective - Not able to produce fruit or offspring.

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Unable and sterile are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unable" instead an adjective "Sterile".

Unable adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.

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Sterile and unable are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Sterile" instead an adjective "Unable".

Whilst there had been similar diseases earlier in Europe, the American strand was extremely virulent, and it killed a lot of people, and rendered even more sterile and unable to have children.

Source: The Plague
He claims to be sterile and unable to get anyone pregnant, denying that he is the father.

Source: Film / Pirates of Silicon Valley
Trouble brews in Eldidd in the first arc when Gwerbret Rhys turns out to be sterile and unable to produce an heir.

Source: Literature / Deverry

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