barren
/ˈbaɹən/noun, adjective2 syllables
Barren means: providing no shelter or sustenance.
Synonyms for barren18
noun, as in an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
adjective, as in not bearing offspring
What does barren mean?4
adjective
1
providing no shelter or sustenance“bare rocky hills”
2
completely wanting or lacking“writing barren of insight”
3
not bearing offspring“a barren woman”
noun
1
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation“the barrens of central Africa”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Barren in a sentence
- Today the area is barren, but a thousand years ago there were trees everywhere.Hybrid
- The trees are barren or bear only small fruit.Luornu
- The plundering of this land has left it barren and infertile.swolesuki
- It seems as if the barren fields are shivering with cold.Hybrid
- It seemed as if the barren fields were shivering with cold.Hybrid
- The giraffes need to cross this area of barren land to find water.Amastan
- Would panpsychism mean life is ubiquitous even on barren desert planets?nonong
- Algeria needs to turn its big barren desert into productive lands.Amastan
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of barren
as a noun
- plural
- barrens
as a adjective
- comparative
- barrener
- superlative
- barrenest