sterilised

1. 1.

   made infertile

   Synonymssterilized

   Similarsterile

Questions about sterilised

What does sterilised mean?

sterilised means "made infertile".

How many syllables are in sterilised?

sterilised has 3 syllables: steri-li-sed. The stress falls on "steri".

What is another word for sterilised?

Close synonyms include sterilized. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sterilised a common word?

sterilised is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.