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Meaning of barren


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  barren
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {bare}, {barren}, {bleak}, {desolate},
             {stark}]
      2: not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in
         his marriage that he was sterile"
      3: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight";
         "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of
         literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn:
         {barren}, {destitute}, {devoid}, {free}, {innocent}]
      n 1: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for
           cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the
           trackless wastes of the desert" [syn: {barren}, {waste},
           {wasteland}]


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