barren, adj.
completely wanting or lacking
<adj.all>
barren destitute devoid free innocent
sample sentences
"writing barren of insight""young recruits destitute of experience"
"innocent of literary merit"
"the sentence was devoid of meaning"
semantic pointers
similar to
not bearing offspring
<adj.all>
barren
sample sentences
"a barren woman""learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to
providing no shelter or sustenance
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 1
bare barren bleak desolate stark
sample sentences
"bare rocky hills""barren lands"
"the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
"the desolate surface of the moon"
"a stark landscape"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
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