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barren

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of barren

1 producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation

if tobacco fields aren't allowed to lie idle once every few years, they will become barren

Synonyms of barren

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

Words Related to barren

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

Near Antonyms of barren

arable, tillable

green, sylvan, verdant

Antonyms of barren

fertile, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, productive, rich

2 not able to produce fruit or offspring

the pear tree appears to be barren

Synonyms of barren

fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful

Words Related to barren

altered, desexed, neutered, sterilized

castrated, emasculated, gelded

Near Antonyms of barren

fecund, luxuriant, productive, prolific

enriched, fertilized, rich

impregnated, pregnant

bearing, producing, yielding

blooming, bursting, flourishing, swarming, teeming

Antonyms of barren

fat, fertile, fruitful

3 producing no results

that line of investigation proved barren, so the police tried other avenues

Synonyms of barren

abortive, bootless, empty, fruitless, futile, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, otiose, profitless, unavailing, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, useless, vain

Words Related to barren

hollow, idle, meaningless, pointless, valueless, worthless

hopeless, impossible, lost, no-win, unattainable

inadequate, insufficient, lacking, wanting

counterproductive

Phrases Synonymous with barren

in vain, no dice, not worth the candle, of no avail

Near Antonyms of barren

meaningful, worthwhile

adequate, sufficient

applicable, feasible, functional, practicable, practical, realizable, usable (also useable), workable

Antonyms of barren

deadly, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, fruitful, potent, productive, profitable, successful, virtuous

4 utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected

their proposal for revitalizing the downtown business district is utterly barren of useful ideas

Synonyms of barren

bankrupt, bare, bereft, destitute, devoid, void

Words Related to barren

blank, empty, innocent, stark, vacant, wanting

deficient, fragmental, fragmentary, incomplete, insufficient, partial, short

absent, missing

Near Antonyms of barren

furnished, provided, supplied

brimming, bulging, bursting, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, saturated, stuffed

abounding, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging

Antonyms of barren

filled, flush, fraught, full, replete, rife

Synonym Discussion of barren

bare, naked, nude, bald, barren mean deprived of naturally or conventionally appropriate covering. bare implies the removal of what is additional, superfluous, ornamental, or dispensable.

- an apartment with bare walls

naked suggests absence of protective or ornamental covering but may imply a state of nature, of destitution, or of defenselessness.

- poor half-naked children

nude applies especially to the unclothed human figure.

- a nude model posing for art students

bald implies actual or seeming absence of natural covering and may suggest a conspicuous bareness.

- a bald mountain peak

barren often suggests aridity or impoverishment or sterility.

- barren plains

barren

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of barren

land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops

lived out in the barrens where it was impossible to grow anything

Synonyms of barren

desert, desolation, heath, no-man's-land, waste, wasteland

Words Related to barren

open, open air, outdoors, out-of-doors

nature, wild, wilderness

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