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barren

[ bar-uhn ]

adjective

  1. not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile:

    a barren woman.

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  2. unproductive; unfruitful:

    barren land.

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  3. without capacity to interest or attract:

    a barren period in American architecture.

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  4. mentally unproductive; dull; stupid.

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  5. not producing results; fruitless:

    a barren effort.

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  6. destitute; bereft; lacking (usually followed by of ):

    barren of tender feelings.

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noun

  1. Usually barrens. level or slightly rolling land, usually with a sandy soil and few trees, and relatively infertile.

barren

/ 藞产忙谤蓹苍 /

adjective

  1. incapable of producing offspring, seed, or fruit; sterile

    a barren tree

  2. unable to support the growth of crops, etc; unproductive; bare

    barren land

  3. lacking in stimulation or ideas; dull

    a rather barren play

  4. not producing worthwhile results; unprofitable

    a barren period in a writer's life

  5. foll by of totally lacking (in); devoid (of)

    his speech was barren of wit

  6. (of rock strata) having no fossils
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞产补谤谤别苍苍别蝉蝉, noun
  • 藞产补谤谤别苍濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 产补谤顎价别苍路濒测 adverb
  • 产补谤顎价别苍路苍别蝉蝉 noun
  • 耻苍路产补谤顎价别苍 adjective
  • un路产补谤顎价别苍路濒测 adverb
  • un路产补谤顎价别苍路苍别蝉蝉 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of barren1

First recorded in 1200鈥50; Middle English barayn(e), bareyn(e), from Anglo-French barai(gn)e, Old French brahaigne ( French 产谤茅丑补颈驳苍别 鈥渟terile鈥), akin to Spanish 产谤别帽补 鈥渟crubby, uncultivated ground,鈥 Upper Italian barena 鈥渓and along a lagoon covered by high water,鈥 all of disputed ultimate origin; perhaps from Celtic (compare Irish branar, Welsh braenar 鈥渇allow land鈥); alternatively, perhaps from a Germanic source akin to Old English 产忙谤, Old High German bar ( bare 1( def ) )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of barren1

C13: from Old French brahain , of uncertain origin
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Synonym Study

See bare 1.
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The barren run in the early weeks of this campaign - their worst start in the Premier League since 1992-93 - came after Palace ended last season with 19 points from their last 21.

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Heard Island, though, is barren, icy and completely uninhabited - home to Australia's largest and only active volcano, Big Ben, and mostly covered by glaciers.

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These extremely remote islands about 1,000 miles north of Antarctica consist mostly of barren tundra.

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We tend to think of the moon as little more than a barren rock, but it鈥檚 very, very dusty.

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Standing in the barren living room of an unfurnished Hollywood rental, my husband and I should have collapsed in relief.

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