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barrenadjective producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetationif tobacco fields aren't allowed to lie idle once every few years, they will become barren bony(also boney), dead, desolate, hardscrabble, impoverished, infertile, poor, stark, unfertile, unproductive, waste bleak, inhospitable, lifelessuncultivable, untillablebankrupted, consumed, debilitated, depleted, diminished, drained, dried-up, enfeebled, exhausted, expended, lessened, reduced, spent, used uparid, desert, droughty, dry, rainless, sere(also sear), thirsty, waterlessbaked, dehydrated, parched, sunbaked fertile, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, productive, rich arable, tillablegreen, sylvan, verdant not able to produce fruit or offspringthe pear tree appears to be barren fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful altered, desexed, neutered, sterilizedcastrated, emasculated, geldedspayedunproductive fat, fertile, fruitful fecund, luxuriant, productive, prolificenriched, fertilized, richimpregnated, pregnantpotentbearing, producing, yieldingblooming, bursting, flourishing, swarming, teeming producing no resultsthat line of investigation proved barren, so the police tried other avenues abortive, bootless, empty, fruitless, futile, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, otiose, profitless, unavailing, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, useless, vain hollow, idle, meaningless, pointless, valueless, worthlesshopeless, impossible, lost, no-win, unattainableinadequate, insufficient, lacking, wantingcounterproductive in vain, no dice, not worth the candle, of no avail deadly, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, fruitful, potent, productive, profitable, successful, virtuous meaningful, worthwhileadequate, sufficientapplicable, feasible, functional, practicable, practical, realizable, usable(also useable), workable utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expectedtheir proposal for revitalizing the downtown business district is utterly barren of useful ideas bankrupt, bare, bereft, destitute, devoid, void blank, empty, innocent, stark, vacant, wantingdeficient, fragmental, fragmentary, incomplete, insufficient, partial, shortabsent, missing filled, flush, fraught, full, replete, rife furnished, provided, suppliedbrimming, bulging, bursting, chock-full(or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, saturated, stuffedabounding, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging land that is uninhabited or not fit for cropslived out in the barrens where it was impossible to grow anything desert, desolation, heath, no-man's-land, waste, wasteland badlandbrush, bushdust bowlopen, open air, outdoors, out-of-doorsnature, wild, wilderness adj.bare, naked, nude, bald, barren mean deprived of naturally or conventionally appropriate covering.bare implies the removal of what is additional, superfluous, ornamental, or dispensable.an apartment with bare walls naked suggests absence of protective or ornamental covering but may imply a state of nature, of destitution, or of defenselessness.poor half-naked children nude applies especially to the unclothed human figure.a nude model posing for art students bald implies actual or seeming absence of natural covering and may suggest a conspicuous bareness.a bald mountain peak barren often suggests aridity or impoverishment or sterility.barren plains in the 13th century |