Definition of barren

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Barren (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile..

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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..
Infecund :: Infecund (a.) Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile.
Infecundous :: Infecundous (a.) Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive.
Barrenly :: Barrenly (adv.) Unfruitfully; unproductively.
Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Overbarren :: Overbarren (a.) Excessively 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..
Barrenness :: Barrenness (n.) The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
Barren :: Barren (n.) A tract of barren land.
Meagreness :: Meagreness (n.) The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
Arid :: Arid (a.) Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
Unfertile :: Unfertile (a.) Not fertile; infertile; barren.
Bad Lands :: Bad lands () Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by ca–ons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands)..
Infertile :: Infertile (a.) Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil..
Fruitless :: Fruitless (a.) Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage..
Scary :: Scary (n.) Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
Impotent :: Impotent (a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren..
Impotency :: Impotency (n.) Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness..
Unfruitful :: Unfruitful (a.) Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort..
Fell :: Fell (n.) A barren or rocky hill.
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