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(3,515 posts)Empty space filled with barren branches.
Barron -- barren.
Maybe she is trying to tell us something.
bar·ren. . . .
1.
(of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation.
synonyms: unproductive, infertile, unfruitful, sterile, arid, desert
"barren land"
antonyms: fertile
(of a tree or plant) not producing fruit or seed.
archaic
(of a woman) unable to have children.
synonyms: infertile, sterile, childless; technicalinfecund
"a barren woman"
antonyms: fertile
(of a female animal) not pregnant or unable to become so.
showing no results or achievements; unproductive.
"much of philosophy has been barren"
2.
(of a place or building) bleak and lifeless.
"the sports hall turned out to be a rather barren concrete building"
empty of meaning or value.
"those young heads were stuffed with barren facts"
synonyms: pointless, futile, worthless, profitless, valueless, unrewarding, purposeless, useless, vain, aimless, hollow, empty, vacuous, vapid
"a barren exchange of courtesies"
antonyms: fruitful
devoid of.
"the room was barren of furniture"
nounNorth American
noun: barren; plural noun: barrens
1.
a barren tract or tracts of land.
"crossing the barrens was no easy feat"
Origin
Middle English: from Old French barhaine, of unknown origin.
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