Definitions for "Barren"
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; sterile.
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
A tract of barren land.
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"
a large area of poor soils and/or thin population: as in "The Barrens" (near Tullahoma and Shelbyville).
An area of droughty, sandy soils dominated by grasses, sparsely inhabited by low shrubs and small trees.
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
Used to describe a filly or mare that was bred and did not conceive during the last breeding season.
Said of rock or vein material containing no minerals of value, and of strata without coal, or containing coal in seams too thin to be workable.
Kimberlite which does not contain diamonds.
Mentally dull; stupid.