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Barren Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Barren?
[n] an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
[adj] incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon" [adj] not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" [adj] not fertile or productive; "a barren tree"; "soil too infertile to sustain real pasture" [adj] without offspring; "in some societies a barren woman is rejected by her tribesmen" [adj] 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 | Synonyms for Barren: bare | bleak | childless | dead | desolate | infertile | inhospitable | stark | sterile | unfertile | unfruitful | waste | wasteland Related Terms | Find terms related to Barren: abortive | acarpous | arid | bare | blah | bland | blank | bleached | bleak | bloodless | bootless | celibate | characterless | childless | clear | cold | colorless | counterproductive | dead | depleted | desert | desolate | devoid | dismal | draggy | drained | drearisome | dreary | dried-up | dry | dryasdust | dull | dusty | earthbound | effete | elephantine | empty | etiolated | exhausted | fade | fallow | fatuitous | fatuous | featureless | feckless | flat | fruitless | futile | gainless | gaunt | gelded | heavy | ho-hum | hollow | impotent | impoverished | inadequate | inane | ineffective | ineffectual | inefficacious | inexcitable | infecund | infertile | inoperative | insipid | invalid | irreclaimable | issueless | jejune | leached | leaden | lifeless | literal | low-spirited | menopausal | mundane | nonfertile | nonproducing | nonproductive | nonprolific | nonremunerative | nugacious | nugatory | null | null and void | of no force | otiose | pale | pallid | parched | pedestrian | plodding | pointless | poky | ponderous | poor | profitless | prosaic | prosing | prosy | rewardless | sine prole | slow | solemn | spiritless | staid | sterile | stiff | stodgy | stolid | stuffy | sucked dry | superficial | tasteless | tedious | teemless | unavailing | uncultivable | uncultivated | unfanciful | unfertile | unfruitful | unideal | unimaginative | uninspired | uninventive | unlively | unoriginal | unplowed | unpoetic | unproductive | unprofitable | unprolific | unrelieved | unremunerative | unrewarding | unromantic | unromanticized | unsown | untilled | useless | vacant | vacuous | vain | vapid | virgin | void | waste | wasted | wasteland | white | wild | wilderness | wildness | with nothing inside | without content | without issue | wooden | worn-out See Also | heath | heathland | wild | wilderness Barren In Webster's Dictionary \Bar"ren\, a. [OE. barein, OF. brehaing, fem. brehaigne,
baraigne, F. br['e]haigne; of uncertain origin; cf. Arm.
br['e]kha[~n], markha[~n], sterile; LL. brana a sterile mare,
principally in Aquitanian and Spanish documents; Bisc. barau,
baru, fasting.]
1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young;
sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
She was barren of children. --Bp. Hall.
2. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; ?rile.
``Barren mountain tracts.'' --Macaulay.
3. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
Brilliant but barren reveries. --Prescott.
Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter.
--Swift.
4. Mentally dull; stupid. --Shak.
{Barren flower}, a flower which has only stamens without a
pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils.
{Barren Grounds} (Geog.), a vast tract in British America
northward of the forest regions.
{Barren Ground bear} (Zo["o]l.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting
the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the
brown bear of Europe.
{Barren Ground caribou} (Zo["o]l.), a small reindeer
({Rangifer Gr[oe]nlandicus}) peculiar to the Barren
Grounds and Greenland.
\Bar"ren\, n. 1. A tract of barren land. 2. pl. Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.] --J. Pickering. |
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