Barren Definition & Meaning
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"
- not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
- completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
- noun
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
"Barren" in song lyrics
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"Finding the God in barren"
Aesop Rock f/ Illogic — One Brick -
"list of animal hospital on barren"
AOL — AOL -
"bob barren"
AOL — AOL
Words that rhyme with barren
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