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(satellite adjective) incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon" |
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(satellite adjective) not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" |
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Synonyms: sterile |
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(satellite adjective) not fertile or productive; "a barren tree"; "soil too infertile to sustain real pasture" |
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Synonyms: infertile |
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(noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" |
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Synonyms: waste, wasteland |
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Related Words: heath, heathland, wild, wilderness |
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(satellite adjective) without offspring; "in some societies a barren woman is rejected by her tribesmen" |
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Synonyms: childless |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark |
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