barren
IPA: bˈærʌn
noun
- An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
- (usually in the plural) In particular, an elevated flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs.
adjective
- (of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
- (of plants, not comparable) Not bearing seed or fruit.
- (of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
- (with of) Devoid, lacking.
- Devoid of interest or attraction, poor, bleak.
- Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
- Mentally dull or unproductive; stupid or intellectually fallow.
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Examples of "barren" in Sentences
- The mountain is dry and barren.
- The building is barren and dusty.
- A wide barren swath was torn through the forest.
- Grasslands are to the west and barren rock to the east.
- Bayawan has one of the most barren mountains in the province.
- If the Scotsman car was austere, the truck was positively barren.
- The community is built on the rocky, barren coastline of the harbour.
- For a long time, the land remained barren of multicellular organisms.
- This interpretation is connected to the parable of the barren fig tree.
- It is also the name of the barren plateau itself and all the pastures on it.
- EL ALTO, Bolivia — Tattered dummies look down on this city from street poles in barren squares, like scarecrows for anyone with bad intentions.
- In tree belts, such shelters are constructed of decomposing leaf litter and other organic debris; in barren, polar regions, they are madeof snow.
- Given that recent US wars have been fought in barren deserts and urban cityspaces, it seems difficult to imagine that the robots will find plentiful plant matter to consume.
- The 33-year-old pilot from Ohio would spend the next four years, 10 months and nine days in barren, dank cells with little more than two blankets and a tin cup to hold water.
- This influx revitalized the Scottish Highlands: glens that had lain barren save eagles and rutting stags since the Highland Clearances of the 1780s rang once again with human activity.
- That is, _such barren plants_ are exhibited in the creation, to make us _thankful when we have more taste and feeling than he, of those parts_ or qualities _which_ produce fruit _in us_, and preserve as from being likewise _barren plants_.
- But Strabo only speaks of the neighborhood of Jerusalem, which he calls barren and arid to the extent of sixty stadia round the city: in other parts he gives a favorable testimony to the fertility of many parts of Palestine: thus he says, "Near Jericho there is a grove of palms, and a country of a hundred stadia, full of springs, and well peopled."