'Barren' definitions:
Definition of 'barren'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark]
adjective
Not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
adjective
Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn: barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent]
noun
Definition of 'Barren'
From: GCIDE
- Barren \Bar"ren\, n.
- 1. A tract of barren land. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Barren'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- She was barren of children. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; sterile. "Barren mountain tracts." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty. [1913 Webster]
- Brilliant but barren reveries. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Mentally dull; stupid. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'barren'
From: Easton
- Barren For a woman to be barren was accounted a severe punishment among the Jews (Gen. 16:2; 30:1-23; 1 Sam. 1:6, 27; Isa. 47:9; 49:21; Luke 1:25). Instances of barrenness are noticed (Gen. 11:30; 25:21; 29:31; Judg. 13:2, 3; Luke 1:7, 36).
Synonyms of 'barren'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Barren -- U.S. County in Kentucky
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Barren -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000) :
38033
Housing Units (2000) :
17095
Land area (2000) :
490.973907 sq. miles (1271.616528 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
8.955255 sq. miles (23.194002 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
499.929162 sq. miles (1294.810530 sq. km)
Located within :
Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location :
36.984455 N, 85.933483 W