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barren
1. adj. Aride.
barren landscape
2. adj. Stérile.
The queen was barren, leaving the kingdom with no heir.
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barren
1. adj. (not comparable) Unable to bear children; sterile.
I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?
2. adj. Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
3. adj. Bleak.
4. adj. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
5. adj. Mentally dull; stupid.
6. n. An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.

Exemples de phrases

Degree of realism is dependent upon physical and fiscal resources of producing theatres, but the more barren, the better.  For trees of laughter to once again grow, on my barren fields, this nymph, I must kiss, but in love's eager haste, my soul might stumble, and onto jaunty stones I'll fall, the end of life, and of love lost.

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