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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
| barren | [ADJ] ปราศจากพืชผล, See also: แห้งแล้ง, ขาดแคลน |
| barren | [ADJ] เป็นหมัน, See also: ไม่มีบุตร, Syn. sterile |
| barren | [ADJ] ไม่มีประโยชน์, See also: ไร้ค่า |
| English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
| barren | (บาร์'เริน) adj. แห้งแล้ง,ปราศจากพืชผล,ไม่ได้ผล,ไม่มีบุตร,เป็นหมัน,ขาดแคลน,ไม่น่าสนใจ,ไร้ความคิด,จืดชืด, S. sterile ###A. fertile,creative |
| English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary
| barren | (adj) แห้งแล้ง,ไม่ได้ผล,เป็นหมัน,ไม่มีลูก |
| CMU English Pronouncing Dictionary
| Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
| Chinese-English: CC-CEDICT Dictionary
| German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary
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| Result from Foreign Dictionaries (5 entries found) |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Barren \Bar"ren\ (b[a^]r"ren), a. [OE. barein, OF. brehaing,
fem. brehaigne, baraigne, F. br['e]haigne; of uncertain
origin; cf. Arm. br['e]kha[~n], markha[~n], sterile; LL.
brana a sterile mare, principally in Aquitanian and Spanish
documents; Bisc. barau, baru, fasting.]
1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young;
sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
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She was barren of children. --Bp. Hall.
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2. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; sterile.
"Barren mountain tracts." --Macaulay.
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3. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
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Brilliant but barren reveries. --Prescott.
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Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter.
--Swift.
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4. Mentally dull; stupid. --Shak.
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{Barren flower}, a flower which has only stamens without a
pistil, or which has neither stamens nor pistils.
{Barren Grounds} (Geog.), a vast tract in British America
northward of the forest regions.
{Barren Ground bear} (Zool.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the
Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown
bear of Europe.
{Barren Ground caribou} (Zool.), a small reindeer ({Rangifer
Gr[oe]nlandicus}) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and
Greenland.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Barren \Bar"ren\, n.
1. A tract of barren land.
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2. pl. Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees,
but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are
not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.]
--J. Pickering.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
barren
adj 1: 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" [syn: {bare}, {barren}, {bleak}, {desolate},
{stark}]
2: not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in
his marriage that he was sterile"
3: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight";
"young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of
literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn:
{barren}, {destitute}, {devoid}, {free}, {innocent}]
n 1: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for
cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the
trackless wastes of the desert" [syn: {barren}, {waste},
{wasteland}]
From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:
barren [bærən]
unfruchtbar
From German-English Freedict dictionary [fd-deu-eng]:
Barren [barən] (n) , pl.
ingot; ingots
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