adjective
definition
Not fertile.
Examples of unfertile in a Sentence
Though the climate is raw and good soil rare, the heath is not unfertile.
South of the Golis the ground falls gradually to the central plateau known as the Haud, a waterless but not unfertile district.
The territory of Corinth was mostly rocky and unfertile; but its position at the head of two navigable gulfs clearly marked it out as a commercial centre.
But neither the severe climate nor the neighbourhood of wild and warlike hillmen shook their faith, and in the course of half a century, in one of the most unhealthy and unfertile localities in the Caucasus, they transformed this wilderness into flourishing colonies, and continued to live a Christian and laborious life, making friends with, instead of fighting, the hillmen.
The soil is generally rocky and unfertile, and the population impoverished, scanty and ignorant.