ungrowable

Impossible to cultivate

Ungrowable describes something that cannot be grown or cultivated.

The term usually applies to plants that won't thrive under particular conditions: Citrus is ungrowable in Minnesota winters.

It can extend to anything that resists development or increase: The company's market share seemed ungrowable.

barren

arid

Devoid of water

parched · lifeless · inhospitable · bleak · drought · scorched · desiccated · sere · dusty · hardpan

stagnant

static

Without motion or change

fixed · plateaued · stunted · arrested · stuck · halted · unimprovable · limited · constrained · capped

hopeless

futile

Incapable of producing results

unviable · unsalvageable · lost cause · beyond help · unreclaimable · unrecoverable · write-off · abandoned · forsaken · given up

infertile

unproductive

Failing to achieve results

unfertile · fruitless · fallow · rocky · sandy · clayey · acidic · alkaline · compacted · nutrient-poor

Opposites
cultivability

ungrowablegrowable

Able to be raised

cultivable · plantable · cultivatable · arable · farmable

agricultural potential

ungrowablefertile

Able to reproduce abundantly

arable · tillable · cultivable · productive · fecund

scalability/development potential

ungrowablegrowable

Able to be raised

expandable · scalable · developable · increasable · extensible

Family

grow, growable, grown, grows, growing, grower, growers, growth, growths

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