providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
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. politics that are banal and barren of purpose. the player, who ended a 14-month barren spell by winning the Tokyo event in October
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