barren

barren

unproductive; unfruitful; not producing results; infertile: The queen was barren.
Not to be confused with:baron – a member of nobility; a person of great power in a particular area: an oil baron

bar·ren

B0084600 (băr′ən)adj.1. a. Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of female animals.b. Often Offensive Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of women.2. Not producing or incapable of producing fruit: barren trees.3. Lacking vegetation, especially useful vegetation: barren tundra.4. Unproductive of results or gains; unprofitable: "That icy winter silence—how it froze you from your bride, / Tho' I made one barren effort to break it at the last!" (Alfred Lord Tennyson). See Synonyms at futile.5. Devoid of something specified: writing barren of insight.6. Lacking in liveliness or interest: a barren routine.n. often barrens A tract of unproductive land, often with a scrubby growth of trees.

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[Middle English barreine, from Old French brahaigne, perhaps of Germanic origin.]

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bar′ren·ly adv.bar′ren·ness n.

barren

(ˈbærən) adj1. (Biology) incapable of producing offspring, seed, or fruit; sterile: a barren tree. 2. (Agriculture) unable to support the growth of crops, etc; unproductive; bare: barren land. 3. lacking in stimulation or ideas; dull: a rather barren play. 4. not producing worthwhile results; unprofitable: a barren period in a writer's life. 5. (foll by of) totally lacking (in); devoid (of): his speech was barren of wit. 6. (Palaeontology) (of rock strata) having no fossils[C13: from Old French brahain, of uncertain origin] ˈbarrenly adv ˈbarrenness n

bar•ren

(ˈbær ən)

adj. 1. not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile. 2. unproductive; unfruitful: barren land. 3. without capacity to interest or attract: a barren period in architecture. 4. bereft; lacking (usu. fol. by of): barren of compassion. n. 5. Usu., barrens. level or slightly rolling land, usu. with a sandy soil and few trees, and relatively infertile. [1200–50; Middle English bareyn(e), barayn(e) < Anglo-French barai(gn)e, Old French brahaigne, appar < Celtic; compare Welsh braenar, Irish branar fallow land] bar′ren•ly, adv. bar′ren•ness, n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	barren - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"wasteland, wasteheathland, heath - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetationwild, wilderness - a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"
Adj.	1.	barren - 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"desolate, bleak, stark, bareinhospitable - unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"
	2.	barren - not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"infertile, sterile, unfertile - incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"
	3.	barren - completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"devoid, destitute, innocent, freenonexistent - not having existence or being or actuality; "chimeras are nonexistent"

barren

adjective1. desolate, empty, desert, bare, waste the Tibetan landscape of the high barren mountains2. unproductive, dry, useless, sterile, fruitless, arid, unprofitable, unfruitful, unprolific He also wants to use water to irrigate barren desert land.
unproductive rich, useful, profitable, productive, fertile, lush, fruitful, fecund, profitable, productive3. dull, boring, commonplace, tedious, dreary, stale, lacklustre, monotonous, uninspiring, humdrum, uninteresting, vapid, unrewarding, as dry as dust My life has become barren.
dull interesting, instructive4. empty, clear, vacant, void, unfilled one loaf of bread on the otherwise barren shelves5. (Old-fashioned) infertile, sterile, childless, unproductive, nonproductive, infecund, unprolific a three-year-old barren mare

barren

adjective1. Unable to produce offspring:childless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful.2. Lacking or unable to produce growing plants or crops:infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive.3. Having no useful result:bootless, fruitless, futile, unavailing, unprofitable, unsuccessful, useless, vain.Idiom: in vain.4. Not having a desirable element:destitute, devoid, empty, innocent, lacking, void, wanting.Idiom: in want of.nounA tract of unproductive land.Often used in plural:badlands, desert, waste, wasteland, wilderness.

Translations

不育的贫瘠的

barren

(ˈbӕrən) adjective not able to produce crops, fruit, young etc. barren soil; a barren fruit-tree; a barren woman. 貧瘠的，不孕的 贫瘠的，不育的 ˈbarrenness noun 貧瘠，不孕 荒芜，不孕