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Barren

adjective

1.

Providing no shelter or sustenance. Synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark. "Barren lands" , "The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes" , "The desolate surface of the moon" , "A stark landscape"

2.

Not bearing offspring. "Learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"

3.

Completely wanting or lacking. Synonyms: destitute, devoid, free, innocent. "Young recruits destitute of experience" , "Innocent of literary merit" , "The sentence was devoid of meaning"

noun

1.

An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation. Synonyms: waste, wasteland. "The trackless wastes of the desert"

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"Barren" Quotes from Famous Books

... like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which come up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. ...

— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne

... matter, you have all been canny enough to have means enough to balance all that barren moorland. You are a richer man than ...

— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge

... hunting grounds they suffered the usual hardships of plains travel. The weather, as in most Texas winters, alternated between the extremes of heat and cold. There had been little rain; in consequence water was scarce. Twice they were forced to cross wild, barren wastes, where the pools had dried up, and they suffered terribly from thirst. On the first occasion the horses were in good condition, and they travelled steadily, with only occasional short halts, ...

— Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches • Theodore Roosevelt

... once he raised his voice to such a pitch that we were able to hear what he said. "Come back, dear daughter, come back to shore; I forgive thee all; let those men have the money, for it is theirs now, and come back to comfort thy sorrowing father, who will yield up his life on this barren strand ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... secured by rigid protective laws. Lastly, the Post-Pliocene deposits have yielded the remains of the singular living animal which is known as the Musk-ox or Musk-sheep (Ovibos moschatus). At the present day, the Musk-ox is an inhabitant of the "barren grounds" of Arctic America, and it is remarkable for the great length of its hair. It is, like the Reindeer, a distinctively northern animal; but it enjoyed during the Glacial period a much wider ...

— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson

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