1.an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;
the barrens of central Africa
2.providing no shelter or sustenance;
bare rocky hills
3.not bearing offspring;
a barren woman
4.incapable of sustaining life;
the dead and barren Moon
詞形變化: barrenlybarrenness adj. 貧瘠的,無效的,不育的例子用法 1.Such a barren desert can support very few creatures. 在這樣荒瘠的沙漠里,很少生物能夠存活。 2.The once barren hillsides are now good farmland. 昔日荒坡,今日良田。 3.He has arrived in the barren upland of central Spain. 他已經到了西班牙中部的貧瘠高地。 4.The barren, inhospitable desert. 那片貧瘠的、荒涼的沙漠 5.Not bearing fruit