1. (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"
2. (adj)
barren
not bearing offspring
"a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
3. (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"
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Definition of 'barren'
