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barren

noun

1 barren

An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation:
— The barrens of central Africa.

synonyms: waste, wasteland.

Dutch: rimboe, woestenij
Polish: nieużytek

adjective

1 barren

Providing no shelter or sustenance:
— Barren lands.

synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark.

Roget 169: unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow; ... show more

2 barren

Not bearing offspring.

3 barren

Completely wanting or lacking:
— Writing barren of insight.

synonyms: destitute, devoid, free, innocent.

Roget 187: absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence etc. ... show more


Moby thesaurus: abortive, acarpous, arid, bare, blah, bland, blank, bleached, bleak, bloodless, bootless, celibate, characterless, childless, clear, cold, colorless, counterproductive, dead, depleted ... show more.

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barrens

Moby thesaurus: Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, barren, barren land, brush, bush, desert, desolation, dust bowl, heath, howling wilderness, karroo, lunar landscape, lunar waste, outback, salt flat, waste, wasteland, weary waste ... show more.

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