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What is the definition of barren?

Answer:
barren means unfertile
Depending on what you mean:
  • (of land): Too poor to produce much or any vegetation.

    • (of a tree or plant): Not producing fruit or seed.

      • (of a woman): Unable to have children.

        • (of a female animal): Not pregnant or unable to become such.

          • Showing no results or achievements; unproductive
            • - much of philosophy has been barren

          • (of a place or building) Bleak and lifeless
            • - the sports hall turned out to be a rather barren concrete building

          • Empty of meaning or value
            • - those young heads were stuffed with barren facts

          • Devoid of
            • - the room was barren of furniture
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