barren

nouns

an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
"the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
barren, waste, wasteland

adjectives

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"
bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark
is derived from
barrenness
not bearing offspring
"a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
barren
is derived from
barrenness
is similar to
incapable of reproducing
"an infertile couple"
infertile, sterile, unfertile
completely wanting or lacking
"writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent