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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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..
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..
Infertility :: Infertility (n.) The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness.
Infecundous :: Infecundous (a.) Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive.
Hungry :: Hungry (superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil..
Fell :: Fell (n.) A barren or rocky hill.
Scary :: Scary (n.) Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
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..
Harvestless :: Harvestless (a.) Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren.
Sanded :: Sanded (a.) Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren.
Plantless :: Plantless (a.) Without plants; barren of vegetation.
Foodless :: Foodless (a.) Without food; barren.
Barren :: Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
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..
Seck :: Seck (a.) Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent..
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)..
Infecundity :: Infecundity (n.) Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.
Wit-starved :: Wit-starved (a.) Barren of wit; destitute of genius.
Unfertile :: Unfertile (a.) Not fertile; infertile; barren.
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