How to pronounce barren:
Example: "The barrens of central africa"
Example: "Bare rocky hills"
Example: "A barren woman"
Example: "Writing barren of insight"
Unable to bear children; sterile.
Example: "I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. what would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?"
Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
Bleak.
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
Mentally dull; stupid.