Barren (Adjective)
Meaning 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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The treeless and barren hills offered no respite from the scorching desert sun.
- After years of drought, the once-thriving land had become barren and dry, devoid of any vegetation.
- The remote and barren landscape of the high-altitude region made it nearly impossible to sustain human life.
- As the astronauts stepped out of their spacecraft, they were struck by the stark and barren surface of the alien planet.
- The rocky and barren terrain stretched out before us like an endless desert, with nary a blade of grass in sight.
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Meaning 2
Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
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Meaning 3
Not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile".
Classification
All adjective clusters.