Barren - Definition
barren
adj 1: 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" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate,
stark]
2: not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in
his marriage that he was sterile"
3: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight";
"young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of
literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn:
barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent]
n 1: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for
cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the
trackless wastes of the desert" [syn: barren, waste,
wasteland]