1. (adj.)barren not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile.
2. barren unproductive; unfruitful: barren land.
3. barren without capacity to interest or attract: a barren period in architecture.
4. barren bereft; lacking (usu. fol. by of): barren of compassion.
5. (n.)barren Usu., barrens.level or slightly rolling land, usu. with a sandy soil and few trees, and relatively infertile.
Etymology: (1200–50; ME bareyn(e), barayn(e) < AF barai(gn)e, OF brahaigne, appar < Celtic; cf. Welsh braenar, Ir branar fallow land)
Definition of 'barren'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (adj)barren, waste, wasteland an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
2. (adj)bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark 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"
3. (adj)barren not bearingoffspring "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
4. (adj)barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent completely wanting or lacking "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
Definition of 'barren'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)barren incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals
2. (adj)barren not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile
6. (noun)barren 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
Definitions of barren 
Arabic: عاقِر، قاحِل، غَيْر مُثْم
Bulgarian: безплоден
Brazilian: estéril
Czech: neúrodný, neplodný
German: unfruchtbar
Danish: ufrugtbar
Greek: στείρος, άγονος
Spanish: estéril, baldío (tierra),
Estonian: viljatu
Farsi: عقیم
Finnish: hedelmätön
French: stérile
Hebrew: עָקַר, לֹא מְנִיב פּרִי
Hindi: बंजर भूमि
Croatian: neplodan
Hungarian: terméketlen, meddő
Indonesian: gersang, mandul
Icelandic: hrjóstrugur; ófrjór
Italian: sterile
Japanese: 不毛の
Korean: 불모인
Lithuanian: bevaisis, nederlingas
Latvian: neauglīgs
Malay: tandus
Dutch: onvruchtbaar
Norwegian: ufruktbar, gold
Polish: jałowy, niepłodny
Persian: عقیم
Pashto: شنډ (ژوى، بوټى)، وچ، شاړه
Portuguese: estéril
Romanian: sterp, neroditor; steril
Russian: бесплодный
Slovak: neplodný, sterilný
Slovenian: neploden
Serbian: jalov
Swedish: ofruktbar, ofruktsam, ste
Thai: ปราศจากพืชผล; แห้งแล้ง; เ
Turkish: kıraç, verimsiz, çorak, k
Taiwanese: 貧瘠的，不孕的
Ukrainian: неродючий
Urdu: بنجر ، بے آپ وگیاہ
Vietnamese: cằn cỗi; không sinh nở
Chinese: 贫瘠的，不育的
