Barren
WordNet
adjective
(1) Incapable of sustaining life
"The dead and barren Moon"
(2) Not bearing offspring
"A barren woman"
"Learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
(3) Completely wanting or lacking
"Writing barren of insight"
"Young recruits destitute of experience"
"A novel devoid of wit and inventiveness"
"A life empty of happiness"
"Innocent of literary merit"
"Void of understanding"
(4) 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"
noun
(5) An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
"The barrens of central Africa"
"The trackless wastes of the desert"
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