Dictionary Definition
barren adj
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]
2 not bearing offspring; "a barren woman";
"learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
3 incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and
barren Moon" n : an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for
cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes
of the desert" [syn: waste, wasteland]
User Contributed Dictionary
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English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ærən
Homophones
- baron italbrac in some accents
Adjective
Translations
unable to bear children; sterile
- Finnish: hedelmätön, steriili, maho
- German: steril, unfruchtbar
- Italian: sterile, infertile
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: estéril, infértil
- Scottish Gaelic: aimrid, fàsaichte, seasg
- Spanish: estéril, infértil
infertile
- Finnish: karu, hedelmätön
- German: unfruchtbar
- Italian: sterile, infruttifero
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: estéril, infértil; árido
- Scottish Gaelic: aimrid, fàsaichte, seasg
- Spanish: estéril, infértil
bleak
Noun
- An area of low fertility and habitation, a
desolate place.
- The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.
Basque
Adjective
barrenExtensive Definition
Barren as a place name can
refer to:
Barren can also refer to:
- See also Barrens (disambiguation page)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abortive, acarpous, arid, bare, blah, bland, blank, bleached, bleak, bloodless, bootless, celibate, characterless, childless, clear, cold, colorless, counterproductive,
dead, depleted, desert, desolate, devoid, dismal, draggy, drained, drearisome, dreary, dried-up, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, earthbound, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, exhausted, fade, fallow, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feckless, flat, fruitless, futile, gainless, gaunt, gelded, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, impotent, impoverished, inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inoperative, insipid, invalid, irreclaimable, issueless, jejune, leached, leaden, lifeless, literal, low-spirited, menopausal, mundane, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, nonremunerative,
nugacious, nugatory, null, null and void, of no force,
otiose, pale, pallid, parched, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, poor, profitless, prosaic, prosing, prosy, rewardless, sine prole,
slow, solemn, spiritless, staid, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stolid, stuffy, sucked dry, superficial, tasteless, tedious, teemless, unavailing, uncultivable, uncultivated, unfanciful, unfertile, unfruitful, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unlively, unoriginal, unplowed, unpoetic, unproductive, unprofitable, unprolific, unrelieved, unremunerative, unrewarding, unromantic, unromanticized, unsown, untilled, useless, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, virgin, void, waste, wasted, wasteland, white, wild, wilderness, wildness, with nothing inside,
without content, without issue, wooden,
worn-out