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Another word for barren

ADJ

  1. Unable to produce offspring

    See also:

    rich

  2. Lacking or unable to produce growing plants or crops

    See also:

    rich

  3. Having no useful result

    Idiom:

    in-vain

    See also:

    used

    thrive

  4. Not having a desirable element

    Idiom:

    in want of

    See also:

    full

NOUN

  1. A tract of unproductive land.

    See also:

    rich

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Another word for barren

MOD

  1. Incapable of producing young

    See also:

    sterile

  2. Lacking vegetation

    See also:

    sterile

  3. Without intellectual interest

    See also:

    dull

  4. Unprofitable

    See also:

    sterile

    naked

    worthless

    waste

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Sentence Examples

  • The site of the town is a barren, rocky mountain valley.

  • The district is the most barren and backward portion of the province.

  • Maybe he wasn't a saddle bum, but only a greenhorn would think he could live off the barren land that surrounded them.

  • The country was mostly poor and barren, sandy hillocks, with scanty growth of spinifex.

  • As a hungry herd of cattle keeps well together when crossing a barren field, but gets out of hand and at once disperses uncontrollably as soon as it reaches rich pastures, so did the army disperse all over the wealthy city.

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