Antonyms for barren
ˈbær ənbar·ren

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1. barrenadjective

   Antonyms:
   fertile, fruitful

   Synonyms:
   sterile

2. barrenadjective

   unable to bear children; sterile

   The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.

   Antonyms:
   fruitful, fertile

   Synonyms:
   sterile

3. barrenadjective

   of poor fertility, infertile

   Antonyms:
   fertile, fruitful

   Synonyms:
   sterile

4. barrenadjective

   bleak

   Antonyms:
   fruitful, fertile

   Synonyms:
   sterile

5. barrenadjective

   not productive

   Synonyms:
   sterile

   Antonyms:
   fertile, fruitful

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1. barren, waste, wastelandadjective

   an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

   "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"

   Antonyms:
   existent, existing, fertile, hospitable

   Synonyms:
   waste product, waste, thriftlessness, permissive waste, wastefulness, waste matter, dissipation, waste material, wasteland

2. bare, barren, bleak, desolate, starkadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   fertile, existent, existing, hospitable

   Synonyms:
   spare, bare(a), devoid, perfect(a), consummate(a), blunt, unornamented, austere, au naturel(p), bare, raw, marginal, arrant(a), black, severe, gross(a), staring(a), simple(a), stripped, desolate, destitute, mere(a), cutting, everlasting(a), double-dyed(a), crude(a), dim, complete(a), innocent, plain, nude, unsheathed, pure(a), unfinished, stark(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), free, naked, bleak, unembellished, sodding(a), scanty, stark, utter(a), stern

3. barrenadjective

   not bearing offspring

   "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"

   Antonyms:
   existing, existent, hospitable, fertile

   Synonyms:
   stark, bare, free, innocent, destitute, desolate, devoid, bleak

4. barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocentadjective

   completely wanting or lacking

   "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"

   Antonyms:
   existent, hospitable, fertile, existing

   Synonyms:
   guiltless, gratis(p), ingenuous, innocuous, indigent, needy, impeccant, complimentary, destitute, loose, costless, liberal, free, stark, unacquainted(p), desolate, gratuitous, clean-handed, impoverished, detached, spare, innocent(p), innocent, poverty-stricken, sinless, devoid, bleak, bare, necessitous

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1. barrenadjective

   Antonyms:
   prolific, fecund, virile, fruitful, fertile, teeming

   Synonyms:
   sterile, agenestic, infecund, unprolific, unprocreant, unproductive, unfruitful, unfertile, effete, desert, unprofitable, fruitless, unremunerative, empty, stupid, dull, unimaginative, prosaic, devoid, uninspiring, uninteresting

How to use barren in a sentence?

1. Lewis Mumford:

   The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.

2. Colette:

   Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?

3. Louis Pasteur:

   Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

4. Delcianna Winders:

   It is unacceptable to confine orcas to barren tanks that, to them, are the size of a bathtub.

5. Goa Kerle:

   We go hungry because we keep expecting fruit from barren lands.

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