Englishbarren
adjective
1 barren land:
unproductive, infertile, unfruitful, sterile, arid, desert, waste, desolate, uncultivatable;
impoverished.
▷antonyms fertile, productive.
3 a barren exchange of courtesies:
pointless, futile, worthless, profitless, valueless, unrewarding, purposeless, useless, vain, aimless;
uninteresting, boring, dull, drab, dry, arid, flat, lifeless, uninspiring, unstimulating, stale, prosaic, hollow, empty, vacuous, vapid.
▷antonyms stimulating, fruitful.
barren Oxford Dictionary of English