单词 | barren |
例句 | barren adjective 1.•barren land:unproductive, infertile, unfruitful, sterile, arid, desert. ANT fertile. 2.archaic •a barren woman:infertile, sterile, childless | technical infecund. ANT fertile. 3.•a barren exchange of courtesies:pointless, futile, worthless, profitless, valueless, unrewarding, purposeless, useless, vain, aimless, hollow, empty, vacuous, vapid. ANT fruitful.WORD NOTE nullipara A woman who has never given birth to a child. One of the few nouns referring to the sexual/reproductive/aging status of a woman that is not in any way pejorative, simply because it is almost never used. Should be printed on T-shirts. — ZSConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See |
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