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Synonyms for barren
ˈbær ənbar·ren

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Wiktionary3.0 / 3 votes

  1. barrenadjective

    Synonyms:
    sterile

    Antonyms:
    fertile, fruitful

  2. barrenadjective

    unable to bear children; sterile

    The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.

    Synonyms:
    sterile

    Antonyms:
    fruitful, fertile

  3. barrenadjective

    of poor fertility, infertile

    Synonyms:
    sterile

    Antonyms:
    fertile, fruitful

  4. barrenadjective

    bleak

    Synonyms:
    sterile

    Antonyms:
    fruitful, fertile

  5. barrenadjective

    not productive

    Synonyms:
    sterile

    Antonyms:
    fertile, fruitful

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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, wasteland

    Antonyms:
    existent, existing, fertile, hospitable

  2. bare, 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), stern

    Antonyms:
    fertile, existent, existing, hospitable

  3. barrenadjective

    not bearing offspring

    "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"

    Synonyms:
    stark, bare, free, innocent, destitute, desolate, devoid, bleak

    Antonyms:
    existing, existent, hospitable, fertile

  4. barren, 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, necessitous

    Antonyms:
    existent, hospitable, fertile, existing

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. empty

    wasteland; has no sight of plants, water, or any form of living things; lifeless

    "the barren wasteland was dry and lifeless"

    Submitted by anonymous on May 3, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. barrenadjective

    Synonyms:
    unprolific, incapable of bearing offspring, not prolific

  2. barrenadjective

    Synonyms:
    unfertile, fruitless, unproductive, sterile, ACARPOUS

  3. barrenadjective

    Synonyms:
    scanty, not copious

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#828nude
#1895naked
#1980waste
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#3226plain
#3717cutting
#3964severe
#4110liberal
#5227loose
#6173spare
#6959bare
#7271innocent
#9389dim
#9440complimentary
#10536stern
#11024marginal
#11372blunt
#12087detached
#12618stark
#14913stripped
#15984unfinished
#17502sterile
#18314arid
#19779needy
#21904tundra
#24547barren
#25029bleak
#25972dissipation
#27252devoid
#27520skinned
#29478wasteland
#30192impoverished
#35529indigent
#36359desolate
#39008gratuitous
#43391destitute
#43825tailings
#48348unproductive
#48630innocuous
#53038austere
#55394infertile
#67164scanty
#68734unadulterated
#90306sinless
#121187guiltless
#140917ingenuous
#151832costless
#219582unsheathed
#243467wastefulness

How to use barren in a sentence?

  1. Kabbalah:

    We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

  2. Alien Life -RSB- Raymond:

    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.

  3. Sir Arthur Helps:

    Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

  4. Delcianna Winders:

    It is unacceptable to confine orcas to barren tanks that, to them, are the size of a bathtub.

  5. R. W. Griswold:

    It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.


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