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barren


I - noun
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the barrens of central Africa
- the trackless wastes of the desert
Syn:
waste, wasteland
Derivationally related forms:
waste (for: waste)
Hypernyms:
wilderness, wild
Hyponyms:
heath, heathland

II - adjective
1. 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
Syn:
bare, bleak, desolate, stark
Similar to:
inhospitable
Derivationally related forms:
starkness (for: stark), bleakness (for: bleak), barrenness, bareness (for: bare)
2. not bearing offspring
- a barren woman
- learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
Similar to:
sterile, unfertile, infertile
Derivationally related forms:
barrenness
3. completely wanting or lacking
- writing barren of insight
- young recruits destitute of experience
- innocent of literary merit
- the sentence was devoid of meaning
Syn:
destitute, devoid, free, innocent
Similar to:
nonexistent

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