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Showing words for BARRENS using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Barrens

barrens

6 Letter Words for Barrens

barren, barres, brasen, rebars, serran, snarer

5 Letter Words for Barrens

aberr, abner, anser, arber, banes, barer, bares, barns, barre, barse, baser, beans, bears, besan, besra, braes, brans, brens, brers, earns, nabes, nares, narre, nears, rares, rasen, raser, reans, rears, reban, rebar, reran, saber, saner, serab, serra, snare

4 Letter Words for Barrens

anes, anre, arbs, aren, ares, bane, bans, bare, barn, barr, bars, base, bean, bear, bena, bens, bern, besa, brae, bran, bras, brer, eans, earn, ears, eras, erns, errs, nabe, nabs, nare, narr, near, nebs, rane, rare, rean, rear, rebs, sabe, sane, sare, sean, sear, sena, serb, serr, snab, snar, sneb

3 Letter Words for Barrens

abn, abr, abs, aer, aes, ane, ans, arb, are, arn, arr, ars, asb, ase, bae, ban, bar, bas, ben, ber, bes, bns, bra, brr, ean, ear, eas, ebn, ebs, ens, era, ern, err, ers, esr, nab, nae, nar, nas, nbe, nea, neb, rab, ran, ras, rea, reb, res, rna, sab, san, sar, sbe, sea, sen, ser

Definitions for Barrens

[1] not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile: a barren woman.
[2] unproductive; unfruitful: barren land.
[3] without capacity to interest or attract: a barren period in American architecture.
[4] mentally unproductive; dull; stupid.
[5] not producing results; fruitless: a barren effort.
[6] destitute; bereft; lacking (usually followed by of ): barren of tender feelings.
[7] Usually barrens. level or slightly rolling land, usually with a sandy soil and few trees, and relatively infertile.
[8] (sometimes singular) (in North America) a stretch of usually level land that is sparsely vegetated or barren
[9] incapable of producing offspring, seed, or fruit; sterile a barren tree
[10] unable to support the growth of crops, etc; unproductive; bare barren land
[11] lacking in stimulation or ideas; dull a rather barren play
[12] not producing worthwhile results; unprofitable a barren period in a writer's life
[13] (foll by of) totally lacking (in); devoid (of) his speech was barren of wit
[14] (of rock strata) having no fossils

Words related to Barrens

barrenoutback, jungle, wasteland, desert, forest, wilderness, wild, solitude, badlands, swamp, fen, void, moor, tundra, quagmire, barren, bush, marshland, marsh, brush

Words nearby Barrens

barrenbarreleye, barrelfish, barrelful, barrelhead, barrelhouse, barren, barren ground caribou, barren grounds, barren lands, barren strawberry, barrens

Origin of Barrens

1200–50; Middle English bareyn(e ), barayn(e ) < Anglo-French barai (gn)e, Old French brahaigne (French bréhaigne (of animals) sterile), akin to Spanish breña scrubby, uncultivated ground, Upper Italian barena land along a lagoon covered by high water; apparently < Celtic, compare Welsh braenar, Irish branar fallow land, but derivational details unclear

Words that may be confused with Barrens

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, barrenbarren, baron, baronet

Other words from Barrens

bar·ren·ly , adverb
bar·ren·ness , noun
un·bar·ren , adjective
un·bar·ren·ly , adverb
un·bar·ren·ness , noun

Word origin for Barrens

C13: from Old French brahain , of uncertain origin

Synonyms for Barrens

badlands, barren, bog, brush, bush, desert, fen, jungle, marsh, marshland, moor, quagmire, solitude, swamp, tundra, void, wasteland, wild, wilderness, wilds, brushland, dust bowl