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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.

Example Sentences

The old man, in a voice that seldom rose above the howling of the wind upon the barren waste, was singing them a Christmas song.

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