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barren    音标拼音: [b'ærən] [b'ɛrən]
a. 不育的,贫瘠的
n. 荒地

不育的,贫瘠的荒地

barren
adj 1: 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" [synonym: {bare}, {barren}, {bleak}, {desolate},
{stark}]
2: not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in
his marriage that he was sterile"
3: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight";
"young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of
literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [synonym:
{barren}, {destitute}, {devoid}, {free}, {innocent}]
n 1: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for
cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the
trackless wastes of the desert" [synonym: {barren}, {waste},
{wasteland}]

Barren \Bar"ren\ (b[a^]r"ren), a. [OE. barein, OF. brehaing,
fem. brehaigne, baraigne, F. br['e]haigne; of uncertain
origin; cf. Arm. br['e]kha[~n], markha[~n], sterile; LL.
brana a sterile mare, principally in Aquitanian and Spanish
documents; Bisc. barau, baru, fasting.]
1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young;
sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
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She was barren of children. --Bp. Hall.
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2. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; sterile.
"Barren mountain tracts." --Macaulay.
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3. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
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Brilliant but barren reveries. --Prescott.
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Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter.
--Swift.
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4. Mentally dull; stupid. --Shak.
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{Barren flower}, a flower which has only stamens without a
pistil, or which has neither stamens nor pistils.

{Barren Grounds} (Geog.), a vast tract in British America
northward of the forest regions.

{Barren Ground bear} (Zool.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the
Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown
bear of Europe.

{Barren Ground caribou} (Zool.), a small reindeer ({Rangifer
Gr[oe]nlandicus}) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and
Greenland.
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Barren \Bar"ren\, n.
1. A tract of barren land.
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2. pl. 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. [Amer.]
--J. Pickering.
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160 Moby Thesaurus words for "barren":
abortive, acarpous, arid, bare, blah, bland, blank, bleached,
bleak, bloodless, bootless, celibate, characterless, childless,
clear, cold, colorless, counterproductive, dead, depleted, desert,
desolate, devoid, dismal, draggy, drained, drearisome, dreary,
dried-up, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, earthbound, effete,
elephantine, empty, etiolated, exhausted, fade, fallow, fatuitous,
fatuous, featureless, feckless, flat, fruitless, futile, gainless,
gaunt, gelded, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, impotent, impoverished,
inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious,
inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inoperative, insipid, invalid,
irreclaimable, issueless, jejune, leached, leaden, lifeless,
literal, low-spirited, menopausal, mundane, nonfertile,
nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, nonremunerative,
nugacious, nugatory, null, null and void, of no force, otiose,
pale, pallid, parched, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky,
ponderous, poor, profitless, prosaic, prosing, prosy, rewardless,
sine prole, slow, solemn, spiritless, staid, sterile, stiff,
stodgy, stolid, stuffy, sucked dry, superficial, tasteless,
tedious, teemless, unavailing, uncultivable, uncultivated,
unfanciful, unfertile, unfruitful, unideal, unimaginative,
uninspired, uninventive, unlively, unoriginal, unplowed, unpoetic,
unproductive, unprofitable, unprolific, unrelieved, unremunerative,
unrewarding, unromantic, unromanticized, unsown, untilled, useless,
vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, virgin, void, waste, wasted,
wasteland, white, wild, wilderness, wildness, with nothing inside,
without content, without issue, wooden, worn-out


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  • BARREN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of BARREN is not reproducing How to use barren in a sentence Synonym Discussion of Barren
  • BARREN | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    BARREN definition: 1 unable to produce plants or fruit: 2 unable to have children or young animals 3 not creating… Learn more
  • BARREN Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    Barren definition: not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile See examples of BARREN used in a sentence
  • Barren - definition of barren by The Free Dictionary
    barren - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
  • Barren - Definition, Meaning Synonyms - Vocabulary. com
    Drive through a forest that's just been destroyed by a fire, and you'll get an idea of what barren means — stripped of vegetation and devoid of life Not to be confused with a baron, a kind of nobleman, barren is often used to describe an area of land that lacks any signs of life
  • barren adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
    Definition of barren adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (of land or soil) not good enough for plants to grow on it The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words Try it for free as part of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app
  • BARREN definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot grow in it He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land If you describe something such as an activity or a period of your life as barren, you mean that you achieve no success during it or that it has no useful results
  • What does Barren mean? - Definitions. net
    Barren refers to an unproductive, desolate, or uninhabited place, incapable of sustaining life or growth It can also refer to someone or something unable of producing results, offspring, or regrowth In another context, it describes a female (in humans or animals) unable to have children
  • BARREN Synonyms: 194 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
    Some common synonyms of barren are bald, bare, naked, and nude While all these words mean "deprived of naturally or conventionally appropriate covering," barren often suggests aridity or impoverishment or sterility When can bald be used instead of barren?
  • Barren - Definition, Meaning, Synonyms Etymology - Better Words
    Barrenness can apply to physical landscapes or abstract concepts, highlighting a lack of growth, fertility, or productivity in both natural and metaphorical contexts 1 The barren landscape stretched for miles, with no signs of vegetation or life 2 The soil in the region was barren, making it almost impossible for farmers to grow crops 3





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