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Synonyms for barren
ˈbær ənbar·ren
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Princeton's WordNet
barren, waste, wastelandadjective
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
"the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
Synonyms:
waste product, waste, thriftlessness, permissive waste, wastefulness, waste matter, dissipation, waste material, wastelandAntonyms:
existent, existing, fertile, hospitablebare, barren, bleak, desolate, starkadjective
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"
Synonyms:
spare, bare(a), devoid, perfect(a), consummate(a), blunt, unornamented, austere, au naturel(p), bare, raw, marginal, arrant(a), black, severe, gross(a), staring(a), simple(a), stripped, desolate, destitute, mere(a), cutting, everlasting(a), double-dyed(a), crude(a), dim, complete(a), innocent, plain, nude, unsheathed, pure(a), unfinished, stark(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), free, naked, bleak, unembellished, sodding(a), scanty, stark, utter(a), sternAntonyms:
fertile, existent, existing, hospitablebarrenadjective
not bearing offspring
"a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
Synonyms:
stark, bare, free, innocent, destitute, desolate, devoid, bleakAntonyms:
existing, existent, hospitable, fertilebarren, destitute, devoid, free, innocentadjective
completely wanting or lacking
"writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
Synonyms:
guiltless, gratis(p), ingenuous, innocuous, indigent, needy, impeccant, complimentary, destitute, loose, costless, liberal, free, stark, unacquainted(p), desolate, gratuitous, clean-handed, impoverished, detached, spare, innocent(p), innocent, poverty-stricken, sinless, devoid, bleak, bare, necessitousAntonyms:
existent, hospitable, fertile, existing
Editors Contribution
empty
wasteland; has no sight of plants, water, or any form of living things; lifeless
"the barren wasteland was dry and lifeless"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
barrenadjective
Synonyms:
unprolific, incapable of bearing offspring, not prolificbarrenadjective
Synonyms:
unfertile, fruitless, unproductive, sterile, ACARPOUSbarrenadjective
Synonyms:
scanty, not copious
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
barrenadjective
Synonyms:
sterile, agenestic, infecund, unprolific, unprocreant, unproductive, unfruitful, unfertile, effete, desert, unprofitable, fruitless, unremunerative, empty, stupid, dull, unimaginative, prosaic, devoid, uninspiring, uninterestingAntonyms:
prolific, fecund, virile, fruitful, fertile, teeming
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#42 | free | |
#271 | black | |
#828 | nude | |
#1895 | naked | |
#1980 | waste | |
#3079 | raw | |
#3226 | plain | |
#3717 | cutting | |
#3964 | severe | |
#4110 | liberal | |
#5227 | loose | |
#6173 | spare | |
#6959 | bare | |
#7271 | innocent | |
#9389 | dim | |
#9440 | complimentary | |
#10536 | stern | |
#11024 | marginal | |
#11372 | blunt | |
#12087 | detached | |
#12618 | stark | |
#14913 | stripped | |
#15984 | unfinished | |
#17502 | sterile | |
#18314 | arid | |
#19779 | needy | |
#21904 | tundra | |
#24547 | barren | |
#25029 | bleak | |
#25972 | dissipation | |
#27252 | devoid | |
#27520 | skinned | |
#29478 | wasteland | |
#30192 | impoverished | |
#35529 | indigent | |
#36359 | desolate | |
#39008 | gratuitous | |
#43391 | destitute | |
#43825 | tailings | |
#48348 | unproductive | |
#48630 | innocuous | |
#53038 | austere | |
#55394 | infertile | |
#67164 | scanty | |
#68734 | unadulterated | |
#90306 | sinless | |
#121187 | guiltless | |
#140917 | ingenuous | |
#151832 | costless | |
#219582 | unsheathed | |
#243467 | wastefulness |
How to use barren in a sentence?
Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971):
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1:
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Translations for barren
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- قاحلArabic
- неплодороден, безплоден, ялов, пустошBulgarian
- neplodnýCzech
- karg, trocken, ausgedörrt, Öde, kahl, dürr, unfruchtbar, Kargland, vertrocknet, steril, ausgetrocknet, ÖdlandGerman
- άκαρποςGreek
- malfekundaEsperanto
- estéril, infértilSpanish
- antzuBasque
- steriili, hedelmätön, karu, mahoFinnish
- stérileFrench
- fàsaichte, seasg, aimridScottish Gaelic
- बांझHindi
- terméketlen, meddőHungarian
- չբեր, ամուլ, անպտղաբերArmenian
- sterile, infertile, infruttiferoItalian
- بێبهرKurdish
- rake, hūnua, pākoko, hahore, pukupā, wharepā, akeake, pāhoahoaMāori
- steriel, onvruchtbaarDutch
- goldeNorwegian
- jałowyPolish
- infértil, estérilPortuguese
- nefertil, sterilăRomanian
- бесплодный, неплодородный, пустошьRussian
- ödemarkSwedish
- தரிசாகTamil
- çorakTurkish
- بنجرUrdu
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