- pronunciation:
- bae
r
n
- features:
- Homophone Note, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
When something is barren, it cannot grow anything.
The land in this part of the desert is barren, and no crops can grow here.- antonyms:
- fertile, productive
- similar words:
- fruitless, poor, useless
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| related words: |
dreary, empty, vacant, wild |
| derivations: |
barrenly (adv.), barrenness (n.) |
The words
barren and
baron sound alike but have different meanings.