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.
Definitions
- adjective. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
- adjective. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
- adjective. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
- adjective. Mentally dull; stupid.
- noun. A tract of barren land.
- noun. 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.
- 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"
- adjective. not bearing offspring
"a barren woman"
"learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
- adjective. providing no shelter or sustenance
"bare rocky hills"
"barren lands"
Synonyms
waste, wasteland, destitute, devoid, free, innocent, bare, bleak, desolate, stark
Common word forms
barrens, barrener, barrenly, barrenest, barrenness
Words from these letters
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