barren in WordNet English dictionary

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"
   bare  barren  bleak  desolate  stark 
   
2. completely wanting or lacking
   "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
   barren  destitute  devoid  free  innocent 
   
3. not bearing offspring
   "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
   barren 
   

1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
   "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
   barren  waste  wasteland