1. barren - noun
· an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
Hypernym(s): wilderness, wild
2. barren - adjective
· 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"
Synonym(s): bare, bleak, desolate, stark
3. barren - adjective
· not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
4. barren - adjective
· completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
Synonym(s): destitute, devoid, free, innocent
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