| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations | | Section VIII. Causation | | 3. Power in Operation |
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| 169. Unproductiveness. |
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| NOUN: | UNPRODUCTIVENESS &c. adj.; infertility, sterility, infecundity; impotence [See Impotence]; unprofitableness (inutility) [See Inutility].
WASTE, desert, Sahara, wild, karoo, wilderness, howling wilderness.
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| VERB: | BE UNPRODUCTIVE &c. adj.; hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing.
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| ADJECTIVE: | UNPRODUCTIVE, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addle, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, [rare], jejune, infertile; useless, otiose; sine prole [L.]; fallow; teemless, issueless, fruitless, infructuose [rare]; unprofitable (useless) [See Inutility]; null and void, of no effect.
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| QUOTATION: | No one can dam the Mississippi.—Roosevelt |
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