Barren Definition & Meaning

barren
adjective
  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"
  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"
noun
  1. 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

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