barren
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˈbɛrən/
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- At last, a tiny oasis of green in the barren wilderness.
- barren landscape
- barren and desolate
- barren desert
A man, exhausted, hoeing barren ground, his lips split by the weather, facing the viewer, barren and exhausted and leaning on his hoe.
- A man, exhausted, hoeing barren ground, his lips split by the weather, facing the viewer, barren and exhausted and leaning on his hoe.
- Most perished when the Germans forced them into the barren deserts or into harsh labor and concentration camps.
- But then there's some grasses like growing in it, but it's just like the newest Earth I've ever been on, super barren.
- And if it's, you know, very barren, dry, dead soil, it might be somewhere along the lines of six months or longer.
- Somewhere an old film Dusk soldiers on a coal barren coast.
Examples
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A few years ago, Joana's hill was a barren, uninhabited landscape.
Academic text (2008) -
Such an approach can turn a tranquil neighborhood with tree-lined streets into a barren landscape.
Academic text (2000) -
Together, they turned that barren space rock into a home.
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Now, close the deal so I can get off this barren rock.
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And though the landscape seems barren and hopeless, the most beautiful flowers make their appearance.
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At times, the land is very barren, and at other times, it is lush green.
Academic text (1996) -
The Major flew low over the barren desert, shifting his head from side to side.
Fiction book (1992) -
The ship touched down on a barren strip of ground a mile beyond Cherokee's only Tradertown.
Fiction book (1991) -
Those who lived were left prisoners in these stony shells, marooned upon this barren land.
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The once fertile valley has turned into a barren wasteland after years of drought.
Synonyms
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2.2
Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface
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6.8
Empty and bleak with little life or shelter
22
4.8
Very plain and empty with no decoration
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4.0
Very dry land or weather with little rain that cannot grow plants
16
4.9
An open empty place with little shelter or plants
8
4.4
Too harsh for plants or animals to survive there
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 Fertile
Surface Forms
Etymology
Barren comes from the same old idea of 'not able to produce', so people began to call land that could not grow crops or support life barren. That's why barren places feel lifeless and 'unable to support life'.