barren (
http://definr.com/barren)
adj 1: without offspring; "in some societies a barren woman is
rejected by her tribesmen" [syn:
childless]
2: not fertile or productive; "a barren tree"; "soil too
infertile to sustain real pasture" [syn:
infertile]
3: 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" [syn:
bare,
bleak,
desolate,
stark]
4: not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in
his marriage that he was sterile" [syn:
sterile]
5: incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon"
n : an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;
"the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of
the desert" [syn:
waste,
wasteland]