Dictionary Entry
barren
barren is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
- 2adjective
Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
- 3adjective
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
- 4adjective
Mentally dull; stupid.
- 5noun
A tract of barren land.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
"the barrens of central Africa"
"the trackless wastes of the desert"
- 8adjective
completely wanting or lacking
"writing barren of insight"
"young recruits destitute of experience"
- 9adjective
not bearing offspring
"a barren woman"
"learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
- 10adjective
providing no shelter or sustenance
"bare rocky hills"
"barren lands"
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