hardscrabble

Synonyms

barren, bony (also boney), dead, desolate, impoverished, infertile, poor, stark, unfertile, unproductive, waste;

Antonyms

fertile, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, productive, rich;

Near Antonyms

arable, tillable;

green, sylvan, verdant;

Related Words

bleak, inhospitable, lifeless;

uncultivable, untillable;

bankrupted, consumed, debilitated, depleted, diminished, drained, dried-up, enfeebled, exhausted, expended, lessened, reduced, spent, used up;

arid, desert, droughty, dry, rainless, sere (also sear), thirsty, waterless;

baked, dehydrated, parched, sunbaked;