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barren

/'bærən/

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adjective
providing no shelter or sustenance
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"barren lands"

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bare bleak desolate stark inhospitable
adjective
completely wanting or lacking
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"writing barren of insight"

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destitute devoid free innocent nonexistent
noun
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
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"the barrens of central Africa"

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waste wasteland

type of:
wild wilderness
adjective
not bearing offspring
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"a barren woman"

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unfertile infertile sterile

Examples of barren

"barren lands"
"writing barren of insight"
"the barrens of central Africa"
"a barren woman"