barren

Adjective

• completely wanting or lacking
  • writing barren of insight
    
  • young recruits destitute of experience
    
  • innocent of literary merit
    
  • the sentence was devoid of meaning
    

• not bearing offspring
  • a barren woman
    
  • learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
    

• 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
    

Noun

• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
  • the barrens of central Africa
    
  • the trackless wastes of the desert
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  destitute , devoid , free , innocent , bare , bleak , desolate , stark , waste , wasteland