Antonyms of adj oil-bearing

1 sense of oil-bearing

Sense 1
oil-bearing -- (containing oil; "oil-bearing shale")

INDIRECT (VIA productive) -> unproductive -- (not producing or capable of producing; "elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries")

Similarity of adj oil-bearing

1 sense of oil-bearing

Sense 1
oil-bearing -- (containing oil; "oil-bearing shale")
       => productive (vs. unproductive) -- (producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration")