Check Dictionary

Find out more about word, its definitions etc.

Valid in these dictionaries

TWL/NWL (Scrabble US/CA/TH)
SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK / ALL)
ENABLE (Words with Friends)

Meaning of barren

1 definition found

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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

Use this dictionary checker to learn more about a word - find out its meaning and also make sure whether that word is a valid word in any of these dictionaries (used by popular word games). Here is the list of dictionaries it checks for :

OCTWL / TWL : The official dictionary for scrabble game in United States, Canada and Thailand.
SOWPODS / CSW : UK and the rest of the world uses this dictionary for various word games including scrabble.
ENABLE - This is the default dictionary for Words with Friends.

The dictionary checker is also good at solving any issue with a disputed word when you're playing scramble games gainst your friends or family members. As a bonus, you also learn new words while having fun!

Back to Word Unscrambler