1.
A ~ landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
...the Tibetan landscape of high ~ 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 ~ desert land.
= infertile
ADJ
3.
If you describe something such as an activity or a period of your life as ~, you mean that you achieve no success during it or that it has no useful results. (WRITTEN)
...politics that are banal and ~ of purpose.
...the player, who ended a 14-month ~ spell by winning the Tokyo event in October...
ADJ: oft ADJ of n
4.
If you describe a room or a place as ~, you do not like it because it has almost no furniture or other objects in it. (WRITTEN)
The room was austere, nearly ~ of furniture or decoration...
ADJ: oft ADJ of n disapproval
5.
A ~ woman or female animal is unable to have babies. (OLD-FASHIONED)
He prayed that his ~ wife would one day have a child.
= infertile
ADJ