Definition of Barren

Noun

  • an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
    "the barrens of central Africa"
    "the trackless wastes of the desert"

Adjective

  • completely wanting or lacking
    "writing barren of insight"
    "young recruits destitute of experience"
    "innocent of literary merit"
    "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
  • not bearing offspring
    "a barren woman"
    "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
  • providing no shelter or sustenance
    "bare rocky hills"
    "barren lands"
    "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
    "the desolate surface of the moon"
    "a stark landscape"
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Unscramble barren

55 unscramble word found using the letters barren.
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