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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.
If you've been there or seen pictures, you know how barren that landscape is, in terms of fundamental nutrient availability of carbon and nitrogen, these things are tough to get your hands on when you're in a biological soil crust.
Large-sized solar power plants need a huge area of land to install solar panels. In Bangladesh such barren field is hardly available. Our policy is to set up such plants only in non-agriculture lands to keep food production unhampered.
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.
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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