barren
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adjective
arid, bare, childless, desolate, disused, empty, fallow, fruitless, functionless, idle, impotent, inactive, inane, infecund, infertile, insufficient, issueless, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, profitless, scarce, shallow, sparse, stagnating, sterile, teemless, unable to yield, unfertile, unfruitful, ungerminating, unprocreant, unproductive, unprofitable, unprolific, unrewarded, unrewarding, unsalable, unyielding, vacant, vacuous, valueless, void, void of contents, waste, wasteful, without issue, worthless
associated concepts: barren land
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index
bleak (exposed and barren), deficient, devoid, futile, ineffective, ineffectual, lifeless (dull), otiose, pedestrian, unavailing, unproductive, vacuous, void (empty)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006