形容词

1. 荒芜的；缺少植被的；不毛的
A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.

2. 贫瘠的
Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot grow in it.

3. 无用的；无益的；无效果的
If you describe something such as an activity or a period of your life as barren, you mean that you achieve no success during it or that it has no useful results.

1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

e.g. the barrens of central Africa
the trackless wastes of the desert

Synonym: wastewasteland