barren
(of people and animals) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
Forget not, in your speed, Antonius, / To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say, / The barren, touched in this holy chase, / Shake off their sterile curse.
(of plants) Not bearing seed or fruit.
(of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
Devoid, lacking.
Devoid of interest or attraction, poor, bleak.
Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour / For private sorrow’s barren song, / When more and more the people throng / The chairs and thrones of civil power?’
Mentally dull or unproductive; stupid or intellectually fallow.
Set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too.
An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
A usually elevated and flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs, and sometimes mosses or heathers, berries, and other marshy or moory vegetation, but little agriculture and few people.
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