1. unable to produce plants or crops; not fertile
2. unable to have children or young animals
3. lacking in ideas, creativity, or results; empty of value

1. an area of barren land
Usage: often plural

Examples

• The desert soil was completely barren and could not support any crops.
• After years of drought, the once-fertile farmland became barren.
• The couple discovered they were barren and could not have children naturally.
• His barren imagination produced no new ideas for the project.
• The meeting was barren of any useful solutions.
• Explorers crossed the frozen barrens of northern Canada.
• The rocky barrens stretched for miles without a single tree.