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.
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