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Meanings of barren in English

Portuguese
deserto
Catalan
erm

An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.

        deserto

        Providing no shelter or sustenance.

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              Completely wanting or lacking.

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                    Unable to reproduce.

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                            Usage of barren in English
                            1
                            Leaders' Questions can be a barren experience at the best of times.
                            The Irish Times
                            2
                            Abruptly he was no longer in the barren land, no longer falling.
                            To the blight: the eye of the world
                            3
                            You will have barren work, to say nothing of incurring some danger.
                            Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
                            4
                            The piñon flourishes in the bleak and barren peaks of the rockies.
                            Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at t...
                            5
                            The barren, overgrazed ground ringing Amboseli National Park testifies to the result.
                            The world without us
                            6
                            But that barren earth was grieved; and the thorns choked the word.
                            The Confessions of St. Augustine
                            7
                            They lived there in the country, in a barren and marshy locality.
                            The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
                            8
                            Daddy said, I guess I'd forgotten how barren the Sixth Level is.
                            Rite of Passage
                            9
                            There was no change in the usual features of the barren landscape.
                            Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879
                            10
                            A line of jagged and barren mountains rose far in the distance.
                            The Scorch Trials
                            11
                            Here in the barren country the steel sky melted to a haze.
                            The Silent Places
                            12
                            The heights are barren, rivers and fertility are down in the valleys.
                            Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
                            13
                            In one direction it enclosed a forest, in another a barren plain.
                            Our Little Korean Cousin
                            14
                            And, for the most part, Sydney has been an especially barren area.
                            The Irish Times
                            15
                            Possibly the custom is connected with the withering of the barren fig-tree.
                            Vanishing England
                            16
                            The Very Young Man surveyed the barren waste around them in dismay.
                            The Girl in the Golden Atom
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                            Translations for barren
                            Portuguese
                            desertobaldio
                            Barren through the time
                            Barren across language varieties
                            United Kingdom
                            Common
                            United States of America
                            Common
                            Ireland
                            Common