barren
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5.3
- adjective
- /ˈbɛrən/
:
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- The nights were deathly cold, the land barren and completely devoid of food.
- spiritually barren
Do you feel that your table be too barren?
- Do you feel that your table be too barren?
Examples
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Silence fell over the barren Castilian landscape.
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A pier emerged from the darkness, protruding from an acre of barren ground.
Fiction book (2001) -
This island is a barren waste.
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It's been barren for years.
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This is going to be a barren source of amusement.
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The room is barren except for a pair of open suitcases and a bed that's been stripped.
Fiction book (2002) -
In the pale afternoon light, Cora stands in the middle of her drab, barren room.
Fiction book (1995) -
Its long tail swished back and forth, stirring up the dust on the barren plain.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Adirondacks seemed barren compared to the close, dark tangles of the Cumberlands.
Fiction book (1995) -
The desert landscape was so barren that nothing could survive there.
Synonyms
351
3.7
Feeling like you have no feelings inside
217
2.2
Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface
142
1.0
A surface that has nothing written or printed on it
64
5.5
Empty inside and not sincere or meaningful
52
5.5
Completely without something that is usual or expected
29
6.8
Empty and bleak with little life or shelter
23
6.2
Not showing new ideas or creative thinking
16
4.9
An open empty place with little shelter or plants
8
4.4
Too harsh for plants or animals to survive there
1
6.3
Not interesting and without energy or life
1
7.9
Empty space with nothing inside
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A large Arctic deer that lives on the tundra and migrates long distances
A long-lived plant with deep roots that grows in dry sandy pine areas of the southeastern United States
How Complete
Surface Forms
Etymology
Barren was first used for things that could not produce, and that idea of 'no production' later came to mean 'lacking' in general. So when something is barren of ideas or feeling, it is 'devoid' or empty of that quality.