barren
ba ruhn
- n an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
the barrens of central Africa - s providing no shelter or sustenance
barren lands - s not bearing offspring
a barren woman - s completely wanting or lacking
writing barren of insight
- The self-deprecating humor is familiar to the 4,500 residents of this beautiful, barren 450,000-acre (182 hectare) reservation.
- Fall had visited this barren real estate 14 years earlier and used its nickname as the title of a book, The Street Without Joy, a chronicle of the French battle against the Viet .
- The barren landscape of post-World War II Germany nourished radical new ideas that would take root not just there but across the Continent.