barren

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
2. (not-comparable) Not bearing seed or fruit.
3. Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
4. (with-of) Devoid, lacking.
5. Devoid of interest or attraction, poor, bleak.
6. Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
7. Mentally dull or unproductive; stupid or intellectually fallow.

Noun

1. An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
2. (plural-normally) In particular, a usually elevated and flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs, and sometimes mosses or heathers, berries, and other marshy or moory vegetation, but little agriculture and few people.

Conceptes

estèril

erm

desèrtic

🏜️

vanitós

infecund

infructuós

desproveït

desolat

àrid

terra erma

desert

🏜️

va

Sinònims

sterile

infertile

unproductive

dry

childless

unfruitful

waste

desolate

fruitless

bare

wasteland

desert

🏜️

stark

devoid

arid

bleak

innocent

😇

destitute

deserted

gaunt

uncultivated

free

🆓

dead

💀

unfertile

wild

poor

impotent

unavailing

effete

farrow

abandoned

dreary

hardscrabble

busyness

business

battery

🔋

bury

burrow

barren land

army

bunch

building

brood

deaf

brace

barrel

acarpous

denuded

crude

bony

Traduccions

stérile

estéril

sterile

unfruchtbar

estéril

onvruchtbaar

sterilis

désert

🏜️

infértil

öde

yermo

άγονος

karg

infertile

árido

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈbæɹən/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: bareyne

In summary

From Middle English bareyne, from Anglo-Norman baraigne, baraing (“sterile; barren”), of obscure origin; probably from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *baʀ (“bare; barren”), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare”). If so, a doublet of bare.