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Superlative for unsuitable for, or inconducive to, growing crops or vegetation
“The barren land is rocky, with sparse, scrubby vegetation.”
Superlative for empty of meaning or value
“No doubt there is a spiritual egoism, built on barren ideas concerning oneself with no real practice behind them, that one can easily fall into.”
Superlative for unable to bear fruit, crops or offspring
“Many too have heard of his marriage to the barren Princess Louise von Stolberg, who bore him no children.”
Superlative for completely lacking in something that is expected or needed
“The great mass of sedimentary rocks is barren of ores and mineralization.”
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