Associations to the word «Barren»

BARREN, adjective. (not comparable) Unable to bear children; sterile.

BARREN, adjective. Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.

BARREN, adjective. Bleak.

BARREN, adjective. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.

BARREN, adjective. Mentally dull; stupid.

BARREN, noun. An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.

BARREN, noun. An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert".

BARREN, adjective. 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".

BARREN, adjective. Not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile".

BARREN, adjective. Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning".