Definition
barren
adjective
- unable to produce plants or crops; not fertile
- unable to have children or young animals
- lacking in ideas, creativity, or results; empty of value
noun
- an area of barren land
Usage: often plural
Examples
- The desert soil was completely barren and could not support any crops.
- After years of drought, the once-fertile farmland became barren.
- The couple discovered they were barren and could not have children naturally.
- His barren imagination produced no new ideas for the project.
- The meeting was barren of any useful solutions.
- Explorers crossed the frozen barrens of northern Canada.
- The rocky barrens stretched for miles without a single tree.