Meaning & Definition of Barren in English

1. An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

• "The barrens of central africa"

• "The trackless wastes of the desert"

1. 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"

2. Not bearing offspring

• "A barren woman"

• "Learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"

3. Completely wanting or lacking

• "Writing barren of insight"

• "Young recruits destitute of experience"

• "Innocent of literary merit"

• "The sentence was devoid of meaning"