Main entry: waste, wasteland, barren
Definition: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
Usage: the barrens of central Africa; the trackless wastes of the desert
Main entry: free, destitute, devoid, barren, innocent
Definition: completely wanting or lacking
Usage: writing barren of insight; young recruits destitute of experience; innocent of literary merit; the sentence was devoid of meaning
Main entry: barren
Definition: not bearing offspring
Usage: a barren woman; learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
Main entry: desolate, bleak, bare, barren, stark
Definition: providing no shelter or sustenance
Usage: bare rocky hills; barren lands; the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes; the desolate surface of the moon; a stark landscape