barren

1. a. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals. Source: opted

2. a. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile. Source: opted

3. a. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty. Source: opted

4. a. Mentally dull; stupid. Source: opted

5. n. A tract of barren land. Source: opted

6. n. Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. Source: opted

7. adj. providing no shelter or sustenance Source: wordnet

8. adj. not bearing offspring Source: wordnet

9. adj. completely wanting or lacking Source: wordnet

10. n. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation Source: wordnet

11. 1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- She was barren of children. Bp. Hall. 2. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; "Barren mountain tracts." Macaulay. 3. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty. Brilliant but barren reveries. Prescott. Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter. Swift. 4. Mentally dull; stupid. Shak. Barren flower, a flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils. -- Barren Grounds (Geog.), a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe. -- Barren Ground caribou (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer Groenlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland. 1. A tract of barren land. 2. pl. Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.] J. Pickering. Source: webster

12. Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but nottimber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarilysterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.] J. Pickering. Source: adambom

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