noun
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
Synonyms
Examples
- the barrens of central Africa
- the trackless wastes of the desert
adjective
providing no shelter or sustenance
Synonyms
Examples
- bare rocky hills
- barren lands
- the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
- the desolate surface of the moon
- a stark landscape
adjective
not bearing offspring
Examples
- a barren woman
- learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
adjective
completely wanting or lacking
Synonyms
Examples
- writing barren of insight
- young recruits destitute of experience
- innocent of literary merit
- the sentence was devoid of meaning