Barren

1. n. 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.
2. a. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; — said of women and female animals.
3. a. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
4. a. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
5. a. Mentally dull; stupid.
6. n. A tract of barren land.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.