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/ˈbæɹən/ · adjective
(of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile..
I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?
Forget not, in your speed, Antonius, To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say, The barren, touched in this holy chase, Shake off their sterile curse.
The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons.
barren mountain tracts
We have descended Tian Shan and entered the Taklamakan Desert, a barren landscape painted in ecru—no shrubs, no grass, only waves upon waves of naked ridges the color of buff, the highest few spotted with white specks of snow.
Terraforming even a barren planet often involves significant financial and ethical hurdles.
August 28, 1731, Jonathan Swift, letter to John Gay But schemes are perfectly accidental. Some will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be fruitful.
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
Use barren when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Barren means (of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile..
Common synonyms include sterile, fruitless, destitute, bereft.
Possible antonyms include fertile, fruitful.
I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?
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