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"
incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon"
not fertile or productive; "a barren tree"; "soil too infertile to sustain real pasture"
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"
without offspring; "in some societies a barren woman is rejected by her tribesmen"
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
