barren in English dictionary

  • barren

    Meanings and definitions of "barren"

    • (not comparable) unable to bear children; sterile
    • of poor fertility, infertile
    • An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
    • adjective
      (not comparable)
      Unable to bear children; sterile.
    • adjective
      Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
    • adjective
      Bleak.
    • adjective
      Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
    • adjective
      Mentally dull; stupid.
    • noun
      An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
    • Unable to reproduce.
    • Completely wanting or lacking.
    • area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place
    • unable to bear children; sterile
    • infertile
    • adjective
      completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
    • adjective
      not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
    • adjective
      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"
    • noun
      an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"

    Synonyms of "barren" in English dictionary

    wild, waste, sterile are the top synonyms of "barren" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of barren

    • barren ( comparative barrener or more barren, superlative barrenest or most barren)
    • barren ( plural  barrens)
    • barren (comparative barrener or more barren, superlative barrenest or most barren)
    • barren (plural barrens)
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