barren (n.)
barren (adj.)
- abortive
- acarpous
- arid
- bare
- bland
- blank
- bleached
- bleak
- bloodless
- bootless
- celibate
- characterless
- childless
- clear
- cold
- colorless
- counterproductive
- dead
- depleted
- desolate
- devoid
- dismal
- drained
- dreary
- dried-up
- dry
- dull
- dusty
- earthbound
- effete
- elephantine
- empty
- etiolated
- exhausted
- fallow
- fatuous
- featureless
- feckless
- flat
- fruitless
- futile
- gaunt
- gelded
- heavy
- ho-hum
- hollow
- impotent
- impoverished
- inadequate
- inane
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inefficacious
- infertile
- inoperative
- insipid
- invalid
- irreclaimable
- jejune
- leached
- leaden
- lifeless
- literal
- low-spirited
- menopausal
- mundane
- nonproductive
- nugatory
- null
- otiose
- pale
- pallid
- parched
- pedestrian
- plodding
- pointless
- poky
- ponderous
- poor
- profitless
- prosaic
- prosy
- slow
- solemn
- spiritless
- staid
- sterile
- stiff
- stodgy
- stolid
- stuffy
- superficial
- tasteless
- tedious
- unavailing
- uncultivable
- uncultivated
- unfertile
- unfruitful
- unimaginative
- uninspired
- uninventive
- unoriginal
- unplowed
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unrelieved
- unremunerative
- unrewarding
- unromantic
- unsown
- untilled
- useless
- vacant
- vacuous
- vain
- vapid
- virgin
- void
- waste
- wasted
- white
- wild
- wooden
- worn-out
And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding.
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "'T is all barren!"
