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barren meaning and definition

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BARREN noun

Definition of barren (noun)

  1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
    • "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
    • synonyms: waste, wasteland

BARREN adjective

Definition of barren (adjective)

  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"
    • synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark
  2. not bearing offspring
    • "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
  3. completely wanting or lacking
    • "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
    • synonyms: destitute, devoid, free, innocent
Source: Princeton University Wordnet

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