Barren

Barren - Other Definitions

• (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
  
  
• (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
  
  
• (a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
  
  
• (a.) Mentally dull; stupid.
  
  
• (n.) A tract of barren land.
  
  
• (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
  
  
• (adv.) Unfruitfully; unproductively.