barrenest

Adjective

barren (comparative barrener or more barren, superlative barrenest or most barren)

1. (not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
   • I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?
2. (not comparable) Not bearing seed or fruit.
3. Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
   • barren mountain tracts1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans...
4. (with-of) Devoid, lacking.
   • August 28, 1731, Jonathan Swift, letter to John Gay
     But schemes are perfectly accidental. Some will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be fruitful.

   Synonyms:

   destitute, bereft

5. Devoid of interest or attraction, poor, bleak.
   • As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.1922, Michael Arlen, “Epilogue Chapter IV”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, section 2
6. Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
   • brilliant but barren reveries1843, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   idle

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