1. (

• barren ,
• waste ,
• wasteland

) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" ;

1. (

• bare ,
• barren ,
• bleak ,
• desolate ,
• stark

) 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" ;

2. (

• barren

) not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" ;

3. (

• barren ,
• destitute ,
• devoid ,
• free ,
• innocent

) completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" ;