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barren
adjective
noun
completely wanting or lacking
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ˈbæɹən
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adjective
completely wanting or lacking
“writing barren of insight”
adjective
not bearing offspring
“a barren woman”
adjective
providing no shelter or sustenance
“bare rocky hills”
noun
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
“the barrens of central Africa”
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writing barren of insight
young recruits destitute of experience
innocent of literary merit
the sentence was devoid of meaning
a barren woman
learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
bare rocky hills
barren lands
the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
the desolate surface of the moon
a stark landscape
the barrens of central Africa
the trackless wastes of the desert
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