Bare of intellectual wealth, destitute of attraction or interest, poor, meagre, jejune, arid, dry.

Bare or destitute of meaning or force; lacking in pregnant import or vividness of description; meagre, trivial, paltry.

Deficient, inferior. Of writing, artistic work, etc., or its style or subject matter: lacking fullness or elaboration; weak, unsatisfying.

Destitute or defective in various other respects. Without literary or artistic effect; bald, meagre, unadorned.

figurative and in extended use. Lacking in substance; meagre, deficient; poor, feeble; jejune.

Of soil, ore, land, etc.: yielding little, unproductive. Also figurative.

Suffering from poverty; reduced to great poverty; extremely poor or destitute. Also figurative.