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barren
adjective
(bar-ren)
providing no shelter or sustenance
Synonyms:
bare
,
bleak
,
desolate
,
stark
,
Examples:
Barren lands.
barren
adjective
(bar-ren)
completely wanting or lacking
Synonyms:
destitute
,
devoid
,
free
,
innocent
,
Examples:
Writing barren of insight.
barren
noun
(bar-ren)
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
Synonyms:
waste
,
wasteland
,
Examples:
The barrens of central Africa.
barren
adjective
(bar-ren)
not bearing offspring
Examples:
A barren woman.
Words Related to
barren
!
desolate
,
wasteland
,
inhospitable
,
unfertile
,
bleak
,
bare
,
sterile
,
infertile
,
stark
,
unfruitful
,
dead
,
childless
,
waste
,
arid
,
uncultivated
,
dry
,
unproductive
,
fruitless
,
tundra
,
futile
,
marginal
,
wasteful
,
naked
,
flank
,
unhelpful
,
clean
,
rock
,
tailings
,
nude
,
singularly
,
skinned
,
seek
,
solicit
,
germ-free
,
non-productive
,
lifeless
,
forlorn
,
treeless
,
unpeopled
,
featureless
,
dreary
,
windswept
,
untilled
,
fertile
,
fallow
,
uninhabited
,
verdant
,
unploughed
,
lonely
,
scrubby
,
empty
,
marshy
,
rocky
,
miserable
,
devoid
,
hopeless
,
infecundous
,
grassless
,
dusty
,
drab
,
denuded
,
uncultivable
,
sandy
,
untrodden
,
parched
,
uninviting
,
infecund
,
nondescript
,
wretched
,
moonlike
,
pathless
,
unplanted
,
unsown
,
sunless
,
ragged
,
unremarkable
,
shadeless
,
desiccated
,
sparse
,
lush
,
hummocky
,
overgrown
,
cultivable
,
stony
,
spartan
,
cheerless
,
untenanted
,
dull
,
grimy
,
rutted
,
dank
,
clayey
,
ramshackle
,
boggy
,
rubbly
,
unpromising
,
muddy
,
untraveled
,
placid
,
hilled
,
barren
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