barren

bar·ren  (brn)

adj.

1.

a. Not producing offspring.

b. Incapable of producing offspring.

2. Lacking vegetation, especially useful vegetation.

3. Unproductive of results or gains; unprofitable: barren efforts. See Synonyms at futile.

4. Devoid of something specified: writing barren of insight. See Synonyms at empty.

5. Lacking in liveliness or interest.

n.

A tract of unproductive land, often with a scrubby growth of trees. Often used in the plural.

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[Middle English barreine, from Old French brahaigne, perhaps of Germanic origin.]

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barren·ly adv.

barren·ness n.

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barren

Adjective

1. incapable of producing offspring

2. unable to support the growth of crops, fruit, etc.: barren land

3. unprofitable or unsuccessful: Real Madrid have had a barren two seasons

4. dull [Old French brahain]

barrenness n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	barren - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" wasteland, waste heathland, heath - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation wild, wilderness - a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"
Adj.	1.	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" desolate, bleak, stark, bare inhospitable - unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"
	2.	barren - not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" infertile, sterile, unfertile - incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"
	3.	barren - completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" devoid, destitute, innocent, free nonexistent - not having existence or being or actuality; "chimeras are nonexistent"

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barren

adjective 1. desolate, empty, desert, waste

adjective 2. unproductive, dry, useless, fruitless, arid, unprofitable, unfruitful << OPPOSITE fertile

adjective 3. dull, boring, commonplace, tedious, dreary, stale, lacklustre, monotonous, uninspiring, humdrum, uninteresting, vapid, unrewarding, as dry as dust << OPPOSITE interesting

adjective 4. (Old-fashioned) infertile, sterile, childless, unproductive, nonproductive, infecund, unprolific

Translations

barren [ˈbærən] adj → estéril

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barren [ˈbærən] adj → stérile; [hills] → aride

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barren [ˈbærən] adj → unfruchtbar

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barren [ˈbærən] adj → sterile; [soil] → arido/a