What is another word for barren?
588 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ bˈaɹən], [ bˈaɹən], [ b_ˈa_ɹ_ə_n]Table of Contents
Similar words for barren:- all (adjective)
- arid (adjective)
- aseptic (adjective)
- bald (adjective)
- bare (adjective)
- blank (adjective)
- dead (adjective)
- deserted (adjective)
- desolate (adjective)
- devoid (adjective)
- dry (adjective)
- effete (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- fruitless (adjective)
- futile (adjective)
- idle (adjective)
- impotent (adjective)
- impoverished (adjective)
- inadequate (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- infertile (adjective)
- jejune (adjective)
- lean (adjective)
- lifeless (adjective)
- meager (adjective)
- naked (adjective)
- no-account (adjective)
- no-good (adjective)
- nonexistent (adjective)
- null (adjective)
- piddly (adjective)
- ponderous (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- stark (adjective)
- sterile (adjective)
- thankless (adjective)
- trashy (adjective)
- unable to support growth (adjective)
- unavailing (adjective)
- uncreative (adjective)
- unimaginative (adjective)
- unprofitable (adjective)
- unsuccessful (adjective)
- vain (adjective)
- void (adjective)
- worthless (adjective)
- barren (noun)
- desert (noun)
- waste (noun)
- other synonyms
Synonyms for Barren:
adj.
•all (adjective) •arid (adjective) •aseptic (adjective) •bald (adjective)- more baldheaded,
- most glabrous,
- hairless,
- more shaven,
- more depilated,
- more glabrous,
- ex-posed,
- shaven,
- most depilated,
- un-covered,
- ex posed,
- un covered,
- most baldheaded,
- most shaven.
- un completed,
- more uncompleted,
- un-completed,
- newest,
- most uncompleted,
- un-touched,
- un-filled,
- un used,
- un-used,
- virgin,
- un touched,
- unfilled,
- un-marked,
- un filled,
- un marked.
- de relict,
- left in the lurch,
- be reft,
- most relinquished,
- be-reft,
- un couth,
- solitary,
- de-relict,
- un-inhabited,
- un-couth,
- un inhabited,
- neglected,
- more relinquished.
- in-nocent,
- most denuded,
- sanser,
- sansest,
- more denuded,
- most without,
- de-void,
- more without,
- de void,
- in nocent.
- rainless,
- sapless,
- evaporated,
- not irrigated,
- Droughty,
- Moistureless,
- Unmoistened,
- dried up,
- searer,
- dried-up,
- desiccant,
- juiceless.
- in-fecund,
- most infecund,
- un prolific,
- un-prolific,
- more infecund,
- most unprolific,
- unprolific,
- more unprolific,
- Infecund,
- in fecund.
- in-expressive,
- more evacuated,
- un-satisfactory,
- in sincerest,
- empty,
- un satisfactory,
- un-intelligent,
- meaningless,
- un intelligent,
- in sipid,
- in sincerer,
- most evacuated,
- un-occupied,
- in-sincere,
- un-substantial,
- de spoiled,
- more vacated,
- wastest,
- in-sincerer,
- most despoiled,
- un real,
- most vacated,
- un substantial,
- dis honest,
- dis-honest,
- un-real,
- de-spoiled,
- insincere,
- un occupied,
- in-sipid,
- in sincere,
- in-sincerest,
- more despoiled,
- in expressive.
- most profitless,
- spinning ones wheels,
- more profitless,
- un available,
- most gainless,
- un successful,
- more gainless,
- spinning one wheels,
- wild goose chase,
- un-successful,
- un-available,
- profitless,
- spinning wheels.
- more resultless,
- in-sufficient,
- save one breath,
- insufficient,
- more impracticable,
- un needed,
- save ones breath,
- save breath,
- un-important,
- in sufficient,
- out window,
- trifling,
- un important,
- most resultless,
- un-needed.
- Resting,
- inert,
- on the shelf,
- most mothballed,
- more laid off,
- on the bench,
- jobless,
- most laid off,
- idler.
- most beggared,
- more have-not,
- in-solvent,
- most hurting,
- povertystricken,
- havenot,
- more havenot,
- most havenot,
- dis-tressed,
- have not,
- poverty stricken,
- most have-not,
- most have not,
- more beggared,
- dis tressed,
- more hurting,
- penurious,
- more have not,
- in solvent.
- in complete,
- in substantial,
- in aptest,
- in-commensurate,
- glitchest,
- junker,
- most niggardly,
- bushleague,
- in appreciable,
- inconsiderable,
- in-complete,
- un-equal,
- minus,
- un equal,
- more stinted,
- in apter,
- un-qualified,
- more niggardly,
- incomplete,
- in considerable,
- glitcher,
- in-appreciable,
- too little,
- junkest,
- in-considerable,
- in-aptest,
- most stinted,
- lemon,
- un qualified,
- in adequate,
- in commensurate,
- in-apter,
- most lemon,
- in-adequate,
- more lemon,
- in-substantial.
- more slack spined,
- most slackspined,
- ineffective,
- most emasculate,
- more slack-spined,
- more slackspined,
- more emasculate,
- in effective,
- most slack-spined,
- slackspined,
- in-effective,
- slack-spined,
- most slack spined,
- slack spined.
- in-decisive,
- most invertebrate,
- in-effectual,
- in decisive,
- in nocuous,
- more ineffective,
- un ablest,
- most defeasible,
- more anticlimactic,
- de feasible,
- invertebrate,
- null void,
- more neutralized,
- in effectual,
- in-efficient,
- most anticlimactic,
- un abler,
- in-nocuous,
- anti climactic,
- most neutralized,
- null and void,
- un-abler,
- de-feasible,
- in efficient,
- anti-climactic,
- more defeasible,
- un-ablest,
- in vertebrate,
- inefficient,
- in-vertebrate,
- more invertebrate.
- more unfertile,
- most unbearing,
- more nonproductive,
- non productive,
- more unbearing,
- un bearing,
- in-fertile,
- most nonproductive,
- un-fertile,
- un-bearing,
- un fertile,
- in fertile,
- most unfertile.
- more sylphlike,
- most beanpole,
- gangling,
- stilter,
- most shadow,
- most sylphlike,
- scraggier,
- stickest,
- stiltest,
- more beanpole,
- stilt,
- more shadow.
- in sensate,
- in-sensate,
- in sensible,
- in-animate,
- in organic,
- in animate,
- de-ceased,
- ex animate,
- in-sensible,
- un-conscious,
- ex-animate,
- in-organic,
- more exanimate,
- un conscious,
- de ceased,
- most exanimate.
- in dishabille,
- unveiled,
- leafless,
- stark naked,
- stark-naked,
- bare-skinned,
- undraped,
- in the raw,
- bareskinned,
- unprotected,
- in the buff,
- stripped,
- without a stitch,
- in the altogether,
- in birthday suit.
- more unsanctioned,
- most unsanctioned,
- un sanctioned,
- un-sanctioned,
- most characterless,
- non existent,
- in-valid,
- most nothing,
- in valid,
- more nothing.
- more rinky-dink,
- more rinkydink,
- rinky-dink,
- twobit,
- most rinky dink,
- most rinky-dink,
- most rinkydink,
- rinky dink,
- two bit,
- diddliest,
- diddlier,
- more rinky dink.
- more pasteurized,
- most germfree,
- most pasteurized,
- most uninfected,
- de contaminated,
- more germ-free,
- more decontaminated,
- anti-septic,
- un-infected,
- most germ-free,
- anti septic,
- most disinfected,
- more germ free,
- most decontaminated,
- dis infected,
- without issue,
- more germfree,
- more disinfected,
- more septic,
- most germ free,
- germ free,
- de-contaminated,
- un infected,
- dis-infected,
- most septic,
- more uninfected.
- un returned,
- un grateful,
- more unrewarding,
- un-recognized,
- dis-tasteful,
- unreturned,
- more unreturned,
- un-returned,
- un-requited,
- un-pleasant,
- un rewarding,
- dis agreeable,
- most unrewarding,
- dis tasteful,
- most unreturned,
- ungrateful,
- most unrecognized,
- un requited,
- more unrecognized,
- un-rewarding,
- un recognized,
- un pleasant,
- un-grateful,
- dis-agreeable.
- more zero,
- more well-worn,
- most zero,
- most well-worn,
- un-imaginative,
- un-romantic,
- un-original,
- more pabulum,
- most wellworn,
- dime dozen,
- more well worn,
- un-inspired,
- well-worn,
- more wellworn,
- wellworn,
- most pabulum,
- un romantic,
- ho hum,
- un inspired,
- dull as dishwater,
- well worn,
- matter of fact,
- most well worn,
- un imaginative,
- un original.
n.
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- impotent,
- arboreal,
- aquatic,
- androgynous.
Other synonyms:
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- greasy,
- algal,
- scrubby,
- thirsty,
- creeping,
- fleshy,
- viable,
- hardy,
- aromatic,
- shrubby,
- submersed,
- female,
- etiolated,
- perennial,
- bootless,
- potted,
- scorched,
- leafy,
- idle,
- bushy,
- flowering,
- herbaceous,
- dwarf,
- luxuriant,
- succulent,
- biennial,
- infertility,
- male,
- leguminous,
- trailing.
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- lush,
- muddy,
- dense,
- withered,
- tender,
- thankless,
- unsuccessful,
- wilderness,
- woody,
- ephemeral,
- effete,
- fertility.
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- vigorous.
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- wanting.
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- full.
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- rank.
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Antonyms for Barren:
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adj.
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unable to support growth
fertile, growing, fruitful, productive, fecund, useful, damp, moist, wet, cultivated, developing.
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Other antonyms:
fertilized, jammed, practical, usable, deadly, yielding, saturated, potent, filled, meaningful, impregnated, applicable, bursting, full, feasible, realizable, practicable, flourishing, brimming, adequate, jam-packed, effectual, bulging, tillable, successful, crowded, stuffed, workable, hospitable, chock-full, sylvan, existent, sufficient, profitable, existing, Crammed, worthwhile, functional, packed, blooming, furnished, arable, bearing, loaded, virtuous, efficacious, effective, efficient.
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unable to support growth
Homophones for Barren:
- brahma, barany, bahrein, bernini, bioarm, borneo, brummie, burma, bourne, bavarian, brunei, barmy, burnham, Bremen, Barron, biform, brown hyena, barium enema, beron, brownie, byron, bufferin, barman, biriani, bryony, bourn, bern, brahmana, bay rum, Baba Au Rhum, bairn, burn, beran, bruno, brama, barroom, brawn, Berm, bran, bromine, brown, broom, brahmin, Brunn, barium, byrnie, bran-new, brummy, Brahmi, be born, browne, bahraini, bream, brome, barn, barrow-man, brine, bahreini, brim, briny, biryani, bruin, bornean, bear on, born, bahrain, baron, brahman, bren, barony, braun, briony, bryan, brain, burin, Brno, bohrium, burmannia, bryum, barnum, berne, buff-brown, barm, brainy, baryon, bruneian, brawny, boron.
Hypernym for Barren:
Hyponym for Barren:
n.
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location
wilderness, wild.
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location