Definitions for Barren

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Barren bar·ren

Spelling: [bar-uh n]

IPA: /ˈbær ən/

Barren is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in Barren (abenrr).

Definitions for Barren

noun

1. Usually, barrens. level or slightly rolling land, usually with a sandy soil and few trees, and relatively infertile.

adjective

1. not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile:
2. unproductive; unfruitful:
3. without capacity to interest or attract:
4. mentally unproductive; dull; stupid.
5. not producing results; fruitless:
6. destitute; bereft; lacking (usually followed by of):

Origin of Barren

1200-50; Middle English bareyn(e), barayn(e) Anglo-French barai(gn)e, Old French brahaigne (French bréhaigne (of animals) sterile), akin to Spanish breña scrubby, uncultivated ground, Upper I

Examples for Barren

First, though, he has to be shocked into recognizing the barren waste of his spiritual life – by spirits.

Without it in the atmosphere, the Earth would be a barren, frozen wasteland.

They are barren, till the imagination has tenanted them with possibilities of danger and dismay.

Ibrahim Hijazi walked me through his barren house, emptied ahead of the demolition.

How long should its followers lurk in the barren lands of the North?

But she did not allow herself to fall into the idleness of barren speculation.

And both were so happy, so all in all to each other, as they left that barren threshold!

Shibirghan, the capital of Jowzjan province, is a remote and barren place, even by Afghan standards.

In an ugly, barren press conference, they demanded a new election.

Once the earth was but a ball of dead, cold rock and barren sand.