barren
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1. barren - Noun
2. barren - Adjective
3. barren - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
A tract of barren land.
Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
A man that begets a barren cannot have a grand child.
Where man is not, nature is barren.
The woman whose sons have died is richer than a barren woman.