The meaning of BARREN is not reproducing. How to use barren in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Barren.

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

BARREN definition: 1. unable to produce plants or fruit: 2. unable to have children or young animals 3. not creating…. Learn more.

BARREN meaning: 1. unable to produce plants or fruit: 2. unable to have children or young animals 3. not creating…. Learn more.

BARREN definition: incapable of producing offspring , seed, or fruit; sterile | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

Definition of barren adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. (of land or soil) not good enough for plants to grow on it. Want to learn more? (of plants or trees) not producing fruit or seeds synonym infertile. (old use) (of a woman) not able to have babies synonym infertile.

mentally unproductive; dull; stupid. a barren effort. barren of tender feelings. Usually barrens. level or slightly rolling land, usually with a sandy soil and few trees, and relatively infertile.

BARREN meaning: 1 : having very few plants not suitable for plants; 2 : not producing fruit or not able to produce fruit

If you describe something such as an activity or a period of your life as barren, you mean that you achieve no success during it or that it has no useful results.

Drive through a forest that's just been destroyed by a fire, and you'll get an idea of what barren means — stripped of vegetation and devoid of life. Not to be confused with a baron, a kind of nobleman, barren is often used to describe an area of land that lacks any signs of life.