barren 音标拼音: [b'ærən] [b'ɛrən]
a . 不育的,贫瘠的
n . 荒地
不育的,贫瘠的荒地
barren adj 1 :
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 " [
synonym : {
bare }, {
barren }, {
bleak }, {
desolate },
{
stark }]
2 :
not bearing offspring ; "
a barren woman "; "
learned early in his marriage that he was sterile "
3 :
completely wanting or lacking ; "
writing barren of insight ";
"
young recruits destitute of experience "; "
innocent of literary merit "; "
the sentence was devoid of meaning " [
synonym :
{
barren }, {
destitute }, {
devoid }, {
free }, {
innocent }]
n 1 :
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation ; "
the barrens of central Africa "; "
the trackless wastes of the desert " [
synonym : {
barren }, {
waste },
{
wasteland }]
Barren \
Bar "
ren \ (
b [
a ^]
r "
ren ),
a . [
OE .
barein ,
OF .
brehaing ,
fem .
brehaigne ,
baraigne ,
F .
br ['
e ]
haigne ;
of uncertain origin ;
cf .
Arm .
br ['
e ]
kha [~
n ],
markha [~
n ],
sterile ;
LL .
brana a sterile mare ,
principally in Aquitanian and Spanish documents ;
Bisc .
barau ,
baru ,
fasting .]
1 .
Incapable of producing offspring ;
producing no young ;
sterile ; --
said of women and female animals .
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She was barren of children . --
Bp .
Hall .
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2 .
Not producing vegetation ,
or useful vegetation ;
sterile .
"
Barren mountain tracts ." --
Macaulay .
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3 .
Unproductive ;
fruitless ;
unprofitable ;
empty .
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Brilliant but barren reveries . --
Prescott .
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Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter .
--
Swift .
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4 .
Mentally dull ;
stupid . --
Shak .
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{
Barren flower },
a flower which has only stamens without a pistil ,
or which has neither stamens nor pistils .
{
Barren Grounds } (
Geog .),
a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions .
{
Barren Ground bear } (
Zool .),
a peculiar bear ,
inhabiting the Barren Grounds ,
now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe .
{
Barren Ground caribou } (
Zool .),
a small reindeer ({
Rangifer Gr [
oe ]
nlandicus })
peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland .
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Barren \
Bar "
ren \,
n .
1 .
A tract of barren land .
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2 .
pl .
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 . [
Amer .]
--
J .
Pickering .
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160 Moby Thesaurus words for "
barren ":
abortive ,
acarpous ,
arid ,
bare ,
blah ,
bland ,
blank ,
bleached ,
bleak ,
bloodless ,
bootless ,
celibate ,
characterless ,
childless ,
clear ,
cold ,
colorless ,
counterproductive ,
dead ,
depleted ,
desert ,
desolate ,
devoid ,
dismal ,
draggy ,
drained ,
drearisome ,
dreary ,
dried -
up ,
dry ,
dryasdust ,
dull ,
dusty ,
earthbound ,
effete ,
elephantine ,
empty ,
etiolated ,
exhausted ,
fade ,
fallow ,
fatuitous ,
fatuous ,
featureless ,
feckless ,
flat ,
fruitless ,
futile ,
gainless ,
gaunt ,
gelded ,
heavy ,
ho -
hum ,
hollow ,
impotent ,
impoverished ,
inadequate ,
inane ,
ineffective ,
ineffectual ,
inefficacious ,
inexcitable ,
infecund ,
infertile ,
inoperative ,
insipid ,
invalid ,
irreclaimable ,
issueless ,
jejune ,
leached ,
leaden ,
lifeless ,
literal ,
low -
spirited ,
menopausal ,
mundane ,
nonfertile ,
nonproducing ,
nonproductive ,
nonprolific ,
nonremunerative ,
nugacious ,
nugatory ,
null ,
null and void ,
of no force ,
otiose ,
pale ,
pallid ,
parched ,
pedestrian ,
plodding ,
pointless ,
poky ,
ponderous ,
poor ,
profitless ,
prosaic ,
prosing ,
prosy ,
rewardless ,
sine prole ,
slow ,
solemn ,
spiritless ,
staid ,
sterile ,
stiff ,
stodgy ,
stolid ,
stuffy ,
sucked dry ,
superficial ,
tasteless ,
tedious ,
teemless ,
unavailing ,
uncultivable ,
uncultivated ,
unfanciful ,
unfertile ,
unfruitful ,
unideal ,
unimaginative ,
uninspired ,
uninventive ,
unlively ,
unoriginal ,
unplowed ,
unpoetic ,
unproductive ,
unprofitable ,
unprolific ,
unrelieved ,
unremunerative ,
unrewarding ,
unromantic ,
unromanticized ,
unsown ,
untilled ,
useless ,
vacant ,
vacuous ,
vain ,
vapid ,
virgin ,
void ,
waste ,
wasted ,
wasteland ,
white ,
wild ,
wilderness ,
wildness ,
with nothing inside ,
without content ,
without issue ,
wooden ,
worn -
out
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