transcription, транскрипция: [ bærən ]
1.
A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
...the country’s landscape of high barren mountains.
≠ fertile
ADJ
2.
Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot grow in it.
He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
= infertile
ADJ
3.
If you describe something such as an activity or a period of your life as barren , you mean that you achieve no success during it or that it has no useful results. ( WRITTEN )
...politics that are banal and barren of purpose.
...the player, who ended a 14-month barren spell by winning the Tokyo event in October...
ADJ : oft ADJ of n
4.
If you describe a room or a place as barren , you do not like it because it has almost no furniture or other objects in it. ( WRITTEN )
The room was austere, nearly barren of furniture or decoration...
ADJ : oft ADJ of n [ disapproval ]
5.
A barren woman or female animal is unable to have babies. ( OLD-FASHIONED )
He prayed that his barren wife would one day have a child.
= infertile
ADJ