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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | barrenness |
a barren woman.
Examples of barren
barren
The space between my parents'bodies is large, like a vacant room or barren land.
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Higher up, the shrubs became sparse, and the terrain loomed barren and ash gray.
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Many of them honor the adventurous souls who settled these rugged, barren lands.
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She has opened a hair salon in a rented trailer on a hill above the barren town.
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It was a barren landscape with relatively fresh lava flows and rocks everywhere.
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Bagpipes played at Ground Zero, the barren pit where the tall towers once stood.
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His group had covered 255 miles in seven days, through the barren Dasht-e Kavir.
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However, in 1800 the Bournemouth area was largely a remote and barren heathland.
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Huge queues pressed to get on the wharf even while other fan zones were barren.
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- An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
- Bare: 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"
- Not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
- Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
- (barrenness) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children
- (barrenness) fruitlessness: the quality of yielding nothing of value
- (Barrenness) Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of a person to contribute to conception. Infertility may also refer to the state of a woman who is unable to carry a pregnancy to full term. ...
- (The Barrens (It)) Derry, Maine is a fictional town and a part of Stephen King's fictional Maine topography, and, like Castle Rock, it has served as the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories. ...
- (The Barrens (Warcraft)) Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels and other media originally created by Blizzard Entertainment.
