The noun barren has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. barren, waste, wasteland -- (an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert")
Overview of adj barren
The adj barren has 4 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark -- (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")
2. barren, destitute, devoid, innocent -- (completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness"; "a life empty of happiness"; "innocent of literary merit"; "void of understanding")
3. barren -- (not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile")
4. barren -- (incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon")