Definition of barren

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Barren (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile..

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Barrenwort :: Barrenwort (n.) An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific..
Branchless :: Branchless (a.) Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
Wilderness :: Wilderness (v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind..
Seck :: Seck (a.) Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent..
Impotent :: Impotent (a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren..
Lean :: Lean (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages..
Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year..
Meagreness :: Meagreness (n.) The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Plantless :: Plantless (a.) Without plants; barren of vegetation.
Teemless :: Teemless (a.) Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth..
Poor :: Poor (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil..
Idle :: Idle (superl.) Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.
Bear :: Bear (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness..
Foodless :: Foodless (a.) Without food; barren.
Meagre :: Meagre (a.) Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery..
Barren :: Barren (a.) Mentally dull; stupid.
Barrenly :: Barrenly (adv.) Unfruitfully; unproductively.
Barren :: Barren (n.) A tract of barren land.
Effete :: Effete (a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile..
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