1. Providing no shelter or sustenance
   "barren lands"
   - bare, bleak, desolate, stark 
2. Not bearing offspring
   "a barren woman" 
3. Completely wanting or lacking
   "writing barren of insight"
   - destitute, devoid, free, innocent 
4. Having little or no vegetation; desolate and lifeless

1. An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
   "the barrens of central Africa"
   - waste, wasteland

Sounds like: baron

Derived forms: barrens

See also: barrenness, infertile, inhospitable, nonexistent, sterile, unfertile

Type of: wild, wilderness

Encyclopedia: Barren

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