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barren

• (s) 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
  desolate, bleak, stark, bare,
• (s) not bearing offspring
  • a barren woman
  • learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
• (s) completely wanting or lacking
  • writing barren of insight
  • young recruits destitute of experience
  • innocent of literary merit
  • the sentence was devoid of meaning
  devoid, destitute, innocent, free,

Nouns

• (n) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
  • the barrens of central Africa
  • the trackless wastes of the desert
  wasteland, waste,

Synonyms

wasteland waste desolate bleak stark bare devoid destitute innocent free

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