an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; the barrens of central Africa; the trackless wastes of the desert
barren (n.)
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
not bearing offspring; a barren woman; learned early in his marriage that he was sterile'
completely wanting or lacking; writing barren of insight; young recruits destitute of experience; innocent of literary merit; the sentence was devoid of meaning