definition of
barren

[1] #1 barren n. [waste, wasteland] an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert". wn

[2] #2 barren s. [bare, 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". wn

[3] #3 barren s. not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile". wn

[4] #4 barren s. [destitute, devoid, free, innocent] completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning". wn