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What (who) is BARREN - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Barren (disambiguation)
barren
1.
A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
...the Tibetan landscape of high barren mountains.
? fertile
ADJ
2.
Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot grow in it.
He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
= infertile
ADJ
3.
If you describe something such as an activity or a period of your life as barren, you mean that you achieve no success during it or that it has no useful results. (WRITTEN)
...politics that are banal and barren of purpose.
...the player, who ended a 14-month barren spell by winning the Tokyo event in October...
ADJ: oft ADJ of n
4.
If you describe a room or a place as barren, you do not like it because it has almost no furniture or other objects in it. (WRITTEN)
The room was austere, nearly barren of furniture or decoration...
ADJ: oft ADJ of n [disapproval]
5.
A barren woman or female animal is unable to have babies. (OLD-FASHIONED)
He prayed that his barren wife would one day have a child.
= infertile
ADJ
barren
a.
1.
Unprolific, sterile, childless, infecund, incapable of bearing offspring.
2.
Destitute of fruit, sterile, acarpous.
3.
Unfertile, unproductive, sterile, poor, bare.
4.
Ineffectual, uninstructive, unsuggestive, infecund, leading to nothing, unproductive.
barren
¦ adjective
1. (of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation.
(of a tree or plant) not producing fruit or seed.
2. (of a female animal) unable to bear young.
3. bleak and lifeless.
4. (barren of) devoid of.
¦ noun (barrens) chiefly N. Amer. barren tracts of land.
Derivatives
barrenly adverb
barrenness noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. barhaine, of unknown origin.
Wikipedia
Barren
Barren primarily refers to a state of barrenness (infertility)
Barren may also refer to:
Examples of use of BARREN
1. The border with Iraq lies mostly in barren desert.
2. A barren job market awaits them after graduation.
3. Kandawgyi Lake, a large forest–like park across town, is similarly barren.
4. By Mijal Grinberg Fifty Australian horsemen crossed the barren plains of the Negev late Sunday afternoon.
5. Home is now a crude tent on a barren field not far from the border.