unteeming

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ teeming.

Adjective

unteeming (not comparable)

1. That does not teem.
   • 1926, Henley William Ernest, Poems, page 116:

     What is Death / But Life in act? How should the Unteeming Grave / Be victor over thee, / Mother, a mother of men?

   • 2016, Charles Foster, Being a Beast:

     Usually, though, the light days in the water were unbiological, unteeming times.

2. (obsolete) Barren; infertile.

   the unteeming womb