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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
barren
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
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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