Of land: Producing little or no vegetation; not fertile, sterile, unproductive, bare. So of mines, etc.

Uncultivated and unproductive, barren, waste; of the nature of a desert.

Bare of vegetation; exposed: now often with some mixture of sense 3, windswept.

Barren, bare. Obsolete.

Of a country, place, etc.: devoid of food; not yielding food; barren, unproductive.

= bleak, adj. 2.

Without land, void of land.

Of the nature of a desert; of or pertaining to a desert.

transferred. Without the usual or natural covering (in various senses). Of trees, mountains, etc.: Leafless, treeless, barren, bare.

Inclining to bleak, adj. (in senses 2 and 3).

Of a thing: poor, meagre, scanty; spec. (of land) unproductive, barren.

Of or characteristic of the Sahara.

Having the quality of a desert.

Characteristic of a desert. Also figurative.

Of land: so poor as to support little if any vegetation. Australian.