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