Barren
[n] an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
[adj] incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon"
[adj] not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
[adj] not fertile or productive; "a barren tree"; "soil too infertile to sustain real pasture"
[adj] without offspring; "in some societies a barren woman is rejected by her tribesmen"
[adj] providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
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Synonyms
bare, bleak, childless, dead, desolate, infertile, inhospitable, stark, sterile, unfertile, unfruitful, waste, wasteland
Related Terms
abortive, acarpous, arid, bare, blah, bland, blank, bleached, bleak, bloodless, bootless, celibate, characterless, childless, clear, cold, colorless, counterproductive, dead, depleted, desert, desolate, devoid, dismal, draggy, drained, drearisome, dreary,