nnoun.locationan uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivationSynset:waste wasteland
Examples:- the barrens of central Africa
- the trackless wastes of the desert
Derivationally Related Form:wastebarren
Hypernyms:wild wilderness
Inherited Hypernyms:barrenwildernessgeographical arearegionlocationobjectphysical entityentity
Direct Hyponyms:heathheathland
adj satadj.allproviding no shelter or sustenanceSynset:bare bleak desolate stark
Examples:- bare rocky hills
- barren lands
- the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
- the desolate surface of the moon
- a stark landscape
Antonyms:hospitable
Derivationally Related Form:starknessbleaknessbarenessbarrenbarrenness
Inherited Hypernyms:bare
Similar to:inhospitable
adj satadj.allnot bearing offspringExamples:- a barren woman
- learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
Antonyms:fertile
Derivationally Related Form:barrenness
Inherited Hypernyms:barren
Similar to:infertile sterile unfertile
adj satadj.allcompletely wanting or lackingSynset:destitute devoid free innocent
Examples:- writing barren of insight
- young recruits destitute of experience
- innocent of literary merit
- the sentence was devoid of meaning
Antonyms:existent
Inherited Hypernyms:barren
Similar to:nonexistent