Related Words for barren

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unfruitful
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Adjective, Adjective
inhospitable
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Adjective, Adjective
childless
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Adjective, Adjective
desolate
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Adjective, Adjective
bare
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Adjective, Adjective
sterile
/x
Adjective, Adjective
infertile
x/x
Adjective, Adjective
bleak
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Adjective, Adjective
stark
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Adjective, Adjective
dead
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Adjective, Adjective
wasteland
/x
Adjective, Noun
waste
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Noun, Adjective
lifeless
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Adjective
deserted
x/x
Verb
cheerless
/x
Adjective
arid
/x
Noun
uninhabited
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Adjective
forlorn
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Adjective
treeless
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Adjective
stony
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Noun
rocky
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Name
dreary
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Adjective
verdant
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Adjective
dusty
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Adjective
unpromising
x/xx
Adjective
drab
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Noun
fertile
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Adjective
blighted
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Adjective
lonely
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Adjective
empty
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Adjective
boggy
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Noun
dull
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Adjective
windswept
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Adjective
featureless
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Adjective
uninteresting
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Adjective
leafless
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Adjective
frigid
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Adjective
uncultivated
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Adjective
wretched
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Adjective
mountainous
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Adjective
denuded
x/x
Adjective
joyless
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Adjective
dismal
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Adjective
dilapidated
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Adjective
undeveloped
xx/x
Adjective
sandy
/x
Name
bland
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Noun
godforsaken
/x/x
Noun
bereft
x/
Noun
marshy
/x
Adjective
fecund
x/
Adjective
scrubby
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Adjective
ashen
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Adjective
pockmarked
/x
Adjective
snowy
/x
Noun
muddy
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Adjective
swampy
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Adjective
rutted
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Adjective
passionless
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Adjective
miserable
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Adjective
forsaken
x/x
Verb
gaunt
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Noun
stagnant
/x
Adjective
expanse
x/
Noun
unappealing
xx/x
Adjective
untended
x/x
Adjective
overgrown
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Adjective
gloomy
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Adjective
decrepit
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Adjective
vacuous
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Adjective
stunted
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Adjective
monotonous
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Adjective
windy
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Noun
insipid
x/x
Adjective
sodden
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Adjective
squalid
/x
Adjective
lonesome
/x
Noun
sere
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Noun
unkempt
x/
Adjective
hollow
/x
Noun
sickly
/x
Adjective
farrow
/x
Name
barred
/
Verb
neuter
/x
Noun
unkind
x/
Adjective
nonsexual
x/xx
Adjective
uninhabitable
xx/xxx
Adjective
naked
/x
Adjective
generative
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Verb
frozen
/x
Noun
foiled
/
Verb
mineralized
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Verb
caribou
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Noun
badlands
/x
Noun
wombs
/
Noun
sceptre
/x
Noun
moor
/
Noun
hilltops
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Noun
hillsides
/x
Noun
scorched
/
Verb
quibble
/x
Noun
tundra
/x
Noun
wilderness
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Noun
crags
/
Noun
scepter
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Noun
upland
/x
Noun
hills
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Noun
islet
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Noun
steppes
/
Noun
ideality
x/xx
Noun
sarah
/x
Name
mares
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Noun
mesas
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Noun
intellectualism
xxx/xxx
Noun
strawberry
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Noun
thorns
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Noun
ewes
/
Noun
wilds
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Noun
acres
/x
Noun
clean
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Adjective, Verb, Noun, Adverb
depressing
x/x
Adjective
destitute
/xx
Adjective, Verb
devoid
x/
Adjective, Verb
dry
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
flank
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
flats
/
Adjective
forested
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Adjective
fruitless
/x
Adjective
futile
/x
Adjective
grand
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Noun, Adjective
grim
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
hereabouts
/xx
Adverb
hilly
/x
Adjective
impotent
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Adjective, Noun
inland
/x
Adverb, Noun, Adjective
marginal
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Adjective, Noun
near
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Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
nothing
/x
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
nude
/
Adjective, Noun
parched
/
Adjective
plain
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
rock
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Noun, Verb
rugged
/x
Adjective
seek
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Verb, Noun
serve
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Verb, Noun
shoal
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
simple
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
singularly
/xxx
Adverb
skinned
/
Adjective
solicit
x/x
Verb, Noun
stretches
/x
Verb, Noun
swept
/
Adjective
tailings
/x
Noun
unhelpful
x/x
Adjective
unknown
x/
Adjective, Noun
unproductive
xx/x
Adjective
wasteful
/x
Adjective
waterless
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Adjective
wooded
/x
Adjective
shirtless
/x
Adjective
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
bulletproof
/xx
Adjective, Verb
no
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective
anymore
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Adverb
sorta
/x
Adverb
literally
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Adverb
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb