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Synonyms for barren
ˈbær ənbar·ren
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Princeton's WordNet
barren, waste, wastelandadjective
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
"the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
Synonyms:
waste product, waste, thriftlessness, permissive waste, wastefulness, waste matter, dissipation, waste material, wastelandAntonyms:
existent, existing, fertile, hospitablebare, barren, bleak, desolate, starkadjective
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"
Synonyms:
spare, bare(a), devoid, perfect(a), consummate(a), blunt, unornamented, austere, au naturel(p), bare, raw, marginal, arrant(a), black, severe, gross(a), staring(a), simple(a), stripped, desolate, destitute, mere(a), cutting, everlasting(a), double-dyed(a), crude(a), dim, complete(a), innocent, plain, nude, unsheathed, pure(a), unfinished, stark(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), free, naked, bleak, unembellished, sodding(a), scanty, stark, utter(a), sternAntonyms:
fertile, existent, existing, hospitablebarrenadjective
not bearing offspring
"a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
Synonyms:
stark, bare, free, innocent, destitute, desolate, devoid, bleakAntonyms:
existing, existent, hospitable, fertilebarren, destitute, devoid, free, innocentadjective
completely wanting or lacking
"writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
Synonyms:
guiltless, gratis(p), ingenuous, innocuous, indigent, needy, impeccant, complimentary, destitute, loose, costless, liberal, free, stark, unacquainted(p), desolate, gratuitous, clean-handed, impoverished, detached, spare, innocent(p), innocent, poverty-stricken, sinless, devoid, bleak, bare, necessitousAntonyms:
existent, hospitable, fertile, existing
Editors Contribution
empty
wasteland; has no sight of plants, water, or any form of living things; lifeless
"the barren wasteland was dry and lifeless"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
barrenadjective
Synonyms:
unprolific, incapable of bearing offspring, not prolificbarrenadjective
Synonyms:
unfertile, fruitless, unproductive, sterile, ACARPOUSbarrenadjective
Synonyms:
scanty, not copious
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
barrenadjective
Synonyms:
sterile, agenestic, infecund, unprolific, unprocreant, unproductive, unfruitful, unfertile, effete, desert, unprofitable, fruitless, unremunerative, empty, stupid, dull, unimaginative, prosaic, devoid, uninspiring, uninterestingAntonyms:
prolific, fecund, virile, fruitful, fertile, teeming
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#42 | free | |
#271 | black | |
#828 | nude | |
#1895 | naked | |
#1980 | waste | |
#3079 | raw | |
#3226 | plain | |
#3717 | cutting | |
#3964 | severe | |
#4110 | liberal | |
#5227 | loose | |
#6173 | spare | |
#6959 | bare | |
#7271 | innocent | |
#9389 | dim | |
#9440 | complimentary | |
#10536 | stern | |
#11024 | marginal | |
#11372 | blunt | |
#12087 | detached | |
#12618 | stark | |
#14913 | stripped | |
#15984 | unfinished | |
#17502 | sterile | |
#18314 | arid | |
#19779 | needy | |
#21904 | tundra | |
#24547 | barren | |
#25029 | bleak | |
#25972 | dissipation | |
#27252 | devoid | |
#27520 | skinned | |
#29478 | wasteland | |
#30192 | impoverished | |
#35529 | indigent | |
#36359 | desolate | |
#39008 | gratuitous | |
#43391 | destitute | |
#43825 | tailings | |
#48348 | unproductive | |
#48630 | innocuous | |
#53038 | austere | |
#55394 | infertile | |
#67164 | scanty | |
#68734 | unadulterated | |
#90306 | sinless | |
#121187 | guiltless | |
#140917 | ingenuous | |
#151832 | costless | |
#219582 | unsheathed | |
#243467 | wastefulness |
How to use barren in a sentence?
A scheme to enable farmers to set up solar power generation capacity on their barren/fallow lands and to sell it to the grid would be operationalized.
from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald):
You know, my Friends, with what a brave CarouseI made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and LineAnd "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, IWas never deep in anything but - Wine.
Livestock was our bank because people expected to sell and raise money for school fees, but they are all dying and there are no pastures. If you look around you, it's just barren.
No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped.
We go hungry because we keep expecting fruit from barren lands.
Translations for barren
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- قاحلArabic
- неплодороден, безплоден, ялов, пустошBulgarian
- neplodnýCzech
- karg, trocken, ausgedörrt, Öde, kahl, dürr, unfruchtbar, Kargland, vertrocknet, steril, ausgetrocknet, ÖdlandGerman
- άκαρποςGreek
- malfekundaEsperanto
- estéril, infértilSpanish
- antzuBasque
- steriili, hedelmätön, karu, mahoFinnish
- stérileFrench
- fàsaichte, seasg, aimridScottish Gaelic
- बांझHindi
- terméketlen, meddőHungarian
- չբեր, ամուլ, անպտղաբերArmenian
- sterile, infertile, infruttiferoItalian
- بێبهرKurdish
- rake, hūnua, pākoko, hahore, pukupā, wharepā, akeake, pāhoahoaMāori
- steriel, onvruchtbaarDutch
- goldeNorwegian
- jałowyPolish
- infértil, estérilPortuguese
- nefertil, sterilăRomanian
- бесплодный, неплодородный, пустошьRussian
- ödemarkSwedish
- தரிசாகTamil
- çorakTurkish
- بنجرUrdu
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