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List of meaning for barren

(of land) a place with little or no vegetation

barren, waste, wasteland(adj)

an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

"the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"

bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark(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"

barren(adj)

not bearing offspring

"a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"

barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent(adj)

completely wanting or lacking

"writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"

producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation

if tobacco fields aren't allowed to lie idle once every few years, they will become barren

not able to produce fruit or offspring

the pear tree appears to be barren

producing no results

that line of investigation proved barren, so the police tried other avenues

utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected

their proposal for revitalizing the downtown business district is utterly barren of useful ideas

land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops

lived out in the barrens where it was impossible to grow anything

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