Usually means: Incapable of producing offspring or vegetation.
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  1. barren: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. barren: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barren: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barren: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barren: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barren, barren: Wordnik
  7. barren: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. barren: Wiktionary
  9. barren: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. barren: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. barren: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Barren, barren: Dictionary.com
  13. barren: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. barren: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Barren: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Barren: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. barren: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. barren: Rhymezone
  19. barren: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. barren: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. barren: Free Dictionary
  22. barren: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. barren: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. barren: Legal dictionary

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  1. barren: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. barren: Medical dictionary
  3. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Barren: Easton Bible

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  1. barren: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See barrenly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
adjective:  (of plants, not comparable) Not bearing seed or fruit.
adjective:  (of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
adjective:  (with of) Devoid, lacking.
adjective:  Devoid of interest or attraction, poor, bleak.
adjective:  Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
adjective:  Mentally dull or unproductive; stupid or intellectually fallow.
noun:  An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
noun:  (usually in the plural) In particular, a usually elevated and flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs, and sometimes mosses or heathers, berries, and other marshy or moory vegetation, but little agriculture and few people.

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