barren
US: /ˈbæɹən/, /ˈbɛɹən/
UK: /bˈæɹən/
UK: /bˈæɹən/
English Vietnamese dictionary
barren /'bærən/
- tính từ
- cằn cỗi (đất)
- không có quả (cây); hiếm hoi, không sinh đẻ (đàn bà)
- không đem lại kết quả
- barren efforts: những cố gắng không đem lại kết quả, những cố gắng vô ích
- khô khan (văn)
- danh từ
- dải đất cằn cỗi, cánh đồng hoang
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
1 (of land or soil) not good enough for plants to grow on it: a barren desert + a barren landscape (= one that is bare, with few plants)
2 (of plants or trees) not producing fruit or seeds
3 (old-fashioned or formal) (of women or female animals) not able to produce children or young animals
Synonym: INFERTILE
4 [usually before noun] not producing anything useful or successful: The team will come through this barren patch and start to win again.
barrenness noun [U]
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 sterile, childless, infertile:
We won't have any calf from this barren cow.
2 unproductive, sterile, bare, infertile; fruitless, dry, unfruitful, unprofitable, poor:
The land was exceedingly stony and barren. The fifteenth century was the most barren period in the history of English literature.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
appear, be | become | make sth
The years of growing cotton had made the land completely barren.
ADV.
completely, entirely, utterly | almost | largely
Concise English dictionary
'bærən
noun
+an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
adj.
+providing no shelter or sustenance
+completely wanting or lacking
+not bearing offspring
+incapable of sustaining life
