Synonym: blank, childless, sterile, unfertile, unproductive. Antonym: fertile, rich. Similar words: barrel, arrest warrant, barrow, barrage, barrier, barring, embarrass, barricade. Meaning: ['bærən] n. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation. adj. 1. providing no shelter or sustenance 2. completely wanting or lacking 3. not bearing offspring 4. incapable of sustaining life.
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31) Lacking its tumultuously fruitful influence, our mental lives would be almost as barren as the moon.
32) Later the level was taken off left and right along this, only to be proved a barren string.
33) All that remained on the barren expanse was a deafening silence.
34) Most tourists are awed by the barren emptiness of the Mojave Desert.
35) Inland the barren wastes of Bodmin Moor could be seen.
36) This part is also characterised by minimal linguistic analysis and a tendency for barren description rather than interpretation.
37) Never again would classrooms and indeed whole schools in the West Riding be the bleak, barren places of my boyhood.
38) Barren Leaves Spontaneous overflows of powerful feeling: Wet dreams, wet dreams, in libraries congealing.
39) What is known is barren and marks the end not the beginning.
40) Dawn had begun to break, and daylight crept over the barren countryside.
41) The relic there was credited with making barren women pregnant and then relieving the pain of parturition.
42) As a barren woman, boyish physically, and shy, I had not found meaning with Helmut.
43) The Moon is unfortunately a barren body devoid of atmosphere and liquid water.
44) For large families then was the in-thing, the norm; no woman can graciously accept being barren.
45) We went into the hallway, which now looked strangely barren.
46) Now a Victorian church stands amid the barren Moor, a mute reminder of the lonely hamlet's more romantic past.
47) Warehouses yawning out over the barren yards and loading docks; rusted cranes fused to their platforms, punching at the air.
48) To the east, across miles of barren brownness, there were dunes floating in an azure sky - another spectacular mirage.
49) Ahead lay the water-chestnut fields, glimmering in the reflected light from Chung Kuo's barren sister.
50) The result was that Dahomean kings were very fecund, while ordinary Dahomean men were often celibate and barren.
51) The backplate of H-5 looks barren and bland compared to the exuberant frippery scrolled over the same part of H-4.
52) After one year Charles suddenly divorced Desiderata on the grounds that she was barren and weak.
53) Many legends naturally grew around this barren and ancient land and were passed down through generations.
54) He walked from there, up barren gray streets,(Sentencedict.com) streetlamps painting the sidewalks a murky bronze.
55) Miles flew by in the barren landscape, punctuated only by the carcasses of kangaroos on the line.
56) Once the land round it was worked,[www.Sentencedict.com] but no one these days would break his back over soil so rocky and barren.
57) There a barren woman is a potential witch and punished with low status and harsh treatment.
58) First-team manager David Hughes believes, however, that this barren 12-month spell creates a false picture.
59) Tom looked out the window over the dry, barren landscape.
60) Smitten by war, the plains of Kyrenia were barren, and the sponge-divers of the Karpass had made barely a living.
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