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unfecund

unfecund adjective: not fecund.

Adjective

unfecund (comparative more unfecund, superlative most unfecund)

  1. Not fecund.
    • My soil is awful, an unfecund combination of sand, rocks and roots, the ungenerous leavings of Long Island’s glacially bulldozed moraine.2007 September 7, Lawrence Downes, “A Box of Worms”, in New York Times

Forms of unfecund

comparativemore unfecund
superlativemost unfecund

Origin of unfecund

From un- + fecund.

Questions about unfecund

What does unfecund mean?
Unfecund means not fecund.
What part of speech is unfecund?
Unfecund is an adjective.

Words near unfecund in the dictionary

  1. unfeathered
  2. unfeathering
  3. unfeathers
  4. unfeatured
  5. unfebrile
  6. unfecund
  7. unfecundated
  8. unfed
  9. unfederal
  10. unfederalized
  11. unfederated

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