barren
Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
Example
“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?”
Other meanings
Not bearing seed or fruit.
Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
Synonyms
- sterile
Antonyms
- fertile
Related words
- barren strawberry
- barren-ground caribou
- barrenly
- barrenness
- barrenwort
- nonbarren
- overbarren
- semibarren
- unbarren
Word history
From Anglo-Norman "baraigne".
Where this comes from
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