Antonyms for barren

Grammar : Adj

Spell : bar-uhn

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbær ən

Definition of barren

Origin : c.1200, from Old French baraigne, baraing "sterile, barren" (12c.), perhaps originally brahain, of obscure derivation, perhaps from a Germanic language. In England, originally used of women, of land in France. Of land in English from late 14c. As a noun, mid-13c., "a barren woman;" later of land.
BARRENS. Elevated lands, or plains upon which grow small trees, but never timber. [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]

adj unable to support growth
adj unprofitable

Example sentences :

They are barren, till the imagination has tenanted them with possibilities of danger and dismay.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

How long should its followers lurk in the barren lands of the North?
Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill

But she did not allow herself to fall into the idleness of barren speculation.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

And both were so happy, so all in all to each other, as they left that barren threshold!
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Once the earth was but a ball of dead, cold rock and barren sand.
Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd

Its soil also is also barren, and in every respect like to that I have just mentioned.
Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz

Any one of the following reasons may cause it to be barren of bloom.
Extract from : « The Mayflower, January, 1905 » by Various

A whole winter was passed on the cold and barren coast of Patagonia.
Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne

For who is able to manure an whole Orchard plot, if it be barren?
Extract from : « A New Orchard And Garden » by William Lawson

But be sure you set your trees, neither in dung nor barren earth.
Extract from : « A New Orchard And Garden » by William Lawson

Synonyms for barren

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