Adjective barren has 3 senses
- bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark - 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"
Antonym: hospitable (indirect, via inhospitable)
- barren - not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
Antonym: fertile (indirect, via sterile)
- barren - incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon"
Antonym: live (indirect, via dead)
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Noun barren has 1 sense
- barren, waste, wasteland - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
--1 is a kind of wilderness, wild
--1 has particulars: heath, heathland
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