| barren | | |
| n. (location) | 1. barren, waste, wasteland | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" |
| ~ heathland, heath | a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation. |
| ~ wild, wilderness | a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition.; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers" |
| adj. | 2. bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark | 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" |
| ~ inhospitable | unfavorable to life or growth.; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas" |
| adj. | 3. barren | not bearing offspring.; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" |
| ~ infertile, sterile, unfertile | incapable of reproducing.; "an infertile couple" |
| adj. | 4. barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent | completely wanting or lacking.; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" |
| ~ nonexistent | not having existence or being or actuality.; "chimeras are nonexistent" |
| unproductive | | |
| adj. | 1. unproductive | not producing or capable of producing.; "elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries" |
| ~ uncreative | not creative.; "an uncreative imagination" |
| ~ infertile, sterile, unfertile | incapable of reproducing.; "an infertile couple" |
| ~ bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain | unproductive of success.; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" |
| ~ dry | unproductive especially of the expected results.; "a dry run"; "a mind dry of new ideas" |
| ~ nonproductive | not directly productive.; "nonproductive labor" |
| ~ unprofitable | producing little or no profit or gain.; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable" |
| adj. | 2. unproductive | not producing desired results.; "the talks between labor and management were unproductive" |
| ~ ineffective, ineffectual, uneffective | not producing an intended effect.; "an ineffective teacher"; "ineffective legislation" |
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