 barren |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] not fertile or productive | |
| Synonyms: | infertile | |
| Examples: | "a barren tree" "soil too infertile to sustain real pasture" |
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| Related terms: | unfruitful | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] without offspring | |
| Synonyms: | childless | |
| Examples: | "in some societies a barren woman is rejected by her tribesmen" |
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| Related terms: | unfruitful | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] incapable of sustaining life | |
| Examples: | "the dead and barren Moon" |
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| Related terms: | dead | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] not bearing offspring | |
| Synonyms: | sterile | |
| Examples: | "a barren woman" "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" |
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| Related terms: | infertile | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] providing no shelter or sustenance | |
| Synonyms: | desolate bleak stark bare | |
| Examples: | "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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| Related terms: | inhospitable | |
| 6. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 17461 | |
| 7. | [ noun ] (geography) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | |
| Synonyms: | wasteland waste | |
| Examples: | "the barrens of central Africa" "the trackless wastes of the desert" |
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| Related terms: | wilderness heath | |
| Similar spelling: |
barn Baron Barna Baran bairn baryon Barron barony Baroni Barone Barney barany Bahrein Bahrain barm Bahreini Bahraini barmy Barahona barium Barham |
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