Synonyms of the word barren


BARRENBARE - BLEAK - DEAD - DESOLATE - DESTITUTE - DEVOID - EMPTY - INFERTILE - INHOSPITABLE - INNOCENT - STARK - STERILE - UNFERTILE - WASTE - WASTELAND - WILD - WILDERNESS

barren

  • adj. (not comparable) Unable to bear children; sterile.
  • adj. Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
  • adj. Bleak.
  • adj. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
  • adj. Mentally dull; stupid.
  • n. An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.

bare

  • adj. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
  • adj. Naked, uncovered.
  • adj. Having no supplies.
  • adj. Having no decoration.
  • adj. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
  • adj. (Britain, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
  • adj. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
  • adj. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
  • adj. (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
  • adj. Threadbare; much worn.
  • adv. (Britain, slang) Very; significantly.
  • adv. Barely.
  • adv. Without a condom.
  • n. (‘the bare’) the surface, the (bare) skin.
  • n. Surface; body; substance.
  • n. (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
  • v. (transitive) To uncover; to reveal.
  • v. (obsolete) simple past tense of bear.

bleak

  • adj. Without color; pale; pallid.
  • adj. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
  • adj. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
  • n. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

dead

  • adj. (not comparable) No longer living.
  • adj. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
  • adj. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
  • adj. Without emotion.
  • adj. Stationary; static.
  • adj. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
  • adj. Unproductive.
  • adj. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; without power; without…
  • adj. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
  • adj. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
  • adj. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
  • adj. (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
  • adj. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in…
  • adj. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
  • adj. (not comparable) Full and complete.
  • adj. (not comparable) Exact.
  • adj. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
  • adj. (informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
  • adj. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
  • adj. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
  • adj. (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
  • adv. (degree) Exactly right.
  • adv. (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
  • adv. As if dead.
  • n. (uncountable, singular only, often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
  • n. (plural, with "the") Those who have died.
  • v. (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
  • v. (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
  • v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.

desolate

  • adj. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
  • adj. Barren and lifeless.
  • adj. Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
  • adj. Dismal or dreary.
  • adj. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
  • v. To deprive of inhabitants.
  • v. To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
  • v. To abandon or forsake something. (Can we verify([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English…
  • v. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

destitute

  • adj. Lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken.
  • v. (transitive) To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.

devoid

  • adj. empty; having none of; completely without.
  • v. (obsolete) To empty out; to remove.

empty

  • adj. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
  • adj. (computing, programming) Containing no elements (as of a string or array), opposed to being null (having…
  • adj. (obsolete) Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
  • adj. Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
  • adj. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
  • adj. Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
  • adj. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
  • adj. (obsolete) Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree.
  • adj. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
  • n. A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.

infertile

  • adj. not fertile.

inhospitable

  • adj. (of a person) Not inclined to hospitality; unfriendly.
  • adj. (of a place) Not offering shelter; barren or forbidding.

innocent

  • adj. Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
  • adj. Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
  • adj. Naive; artless.
  • adj. (obsolete) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless.
  • adj. (with of) Having no knowledge (of something).
  • adj. (with of) Lacking (something).
  • adj. Lawful; permitted.
  • adj. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
  • n. Those who are innocent; young children.

stark

  • adj. (obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
  • adj. Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
  • adj. (rare) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
  • adj. Stiff, rigid.
  • adj. Hard in appearance; barren, desolate.
  • adj. Complete, absolute, full.
  • adv. starkly; entirely, absolutely.
  • v. (obsolete or dialect) To stiffen.

sterile

  • adj. (not comparable) Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
  • adj. Unprofitable.
  • adj. Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.

unfertile

  • adj. Not fertile.

waste

  • n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
  • n. Excrement or urine.
  • n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
  • n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
  • n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
  • n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
  • n. A vast expanse of water.
  • n. A disused mine or part of one.
  • n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
  • n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
  • n. Gradual loss or decay.
  • n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
  • n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
  • n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
  • n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
  • adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
  • adj. Barren; desert.
  • adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
  • adj. Superfluous; needless.
  • adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
  • adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
  • v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
  • v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
  • v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
  • v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
  • v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
  • v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…

wasteland

  • n. A region with no remaining resources; a desert.
  • n. Any barren or uninteresting place.

wild

  • adj. Untamed; not domesticated.
  • adj. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
  • adj. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
  • adj. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
  • adj. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
  • adj. Enthusiastic.
  • adj. Inaccurate.
  • adj. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
  • adj. (nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
  • adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
  • adv. Inaccurately; not on target.
  • n. The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially…

wilderness

  • n. An unsettled and uncultivated tract of land left in its natural state.

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