I. adjective
1.
Synonyms: sterile 1, effete, impotent, infecund, infertile, unfruitful
Related Word: childless, fallow, heirless, issueless
Contrasted words: pregnant; fertile
Antonyms: fecund
2.
deficient in production of vegetation and especially crops
barren deserts and wastelands
Synonyms: hardscrabble, infertile, unbearing, unfertile, unproductive
Related Word: fallow; irreclaimable, uncultivable, unhusbanded, untillable, wild; bleak, depleted, impoverished, poor, worn-out; vegetationless, verdureless; arid, desert, dry, parched
Contrasted words: arable, fruitful, productive; fat, rich; lush, luxuriant; green, verdant, verdurous
Antonyms: fertile
II. noun
Synonyms: waste 1, badland, desert, wasteland, wild, wilderness, wild land, wildness