barren

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - noun

an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the barrens of central Africa
- the trackless wastes of the desert
• Syn:
waste, wasteland
• Derivationally related forms:
waste (for: waste)
• Hypernyms:
wilderness, wild
• Hyponyms:
heath, heathland

II - adjective

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
• Syn:
bare, bleak, desolate, stark
• Similar to:
inhospitable
• Derivationally related forms:
starkness (for: stark), bleakness (for: bleak), barrenness, bareness (for: bare)
2. not bearing offspring
- a barren woman
- learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
• Similar to:
sterile, unfertile, infertile
• Derivationally related forms:
barrenness
3. completely wanting or lacking
- writing barren of insight
- young recruits destitute of experience
- innocent of literary merit
- the sentence was devoid of meaning
• Syn:
destitute, devoid, free, innocent
• Similar to:
nonexistent

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  destitute, devoid, free, innocent, bare, bleak, desolate, stark, waste, wasteland