Definition of barren Barren

/bæˈɹʌn/ - [batrun] - bar•ren

We found 19 definitions of barren from 6 different sources.

What does barren mean?

Noun Plural: barrens
barren - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
		waste, wasteland
		wild, wilderness a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild"; "they collected mushrooms in the wild"
Adjective barren, barrenner, barrennest
barren - not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
		infertile, unfertile, sterile deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
barren - completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
		destitute, devoid, free, innocent
barren - 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"
		bare, bleak, desolate, stark
		inhospitable unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"

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barren (a.)
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
barren (a.)
Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
barren (a.)
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
barren (a.)
Mentally dull; stupid.
barren (n.)
A tract of barren land.
barren (n.)
Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.

barren
bar′en, adj. incapable of bearing offspring: unfruitful: dull, stupid: unprofitable (with of).—adj. Bar′ren-beat′en.—adv. Bar′renly.—n. Bar′renness.—adjs. Bar′ren-spir′ited; Bar′ren-wit′ted. [O. Fr. barain, brahain, brehaing, perh. from bar, man, as if 'male-like, not producing offspring.']

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