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barren
'barren' - used as an adjective
1. providing no shelter or sustenance
barren lands
2. (of a woman or female animal) not able to produce offspring
3. completely wanting or lacking
writing barren of insight
4. having little or no vegetation; desolate and lifeless
5. not bearing offspring
a barren woman
6. incapable of sustaining life
the dead and barren Moon

'barren' - used as a noun
7. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
the barrens of central Africa
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