Clues for the word "BARREN"
We've had 37 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 88 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on March 23, 2026.
Definition of barren
- a. - Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
- a. - Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
- a. - Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
- a. - Mentally dull; stupid.
- n. - A tract of barren land.
- 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.
Referring Clues
- Like a wasteland
- Sterile
- It has "bare" inside
- Fruitless
- Unproductive
- Unfruitful
- Like wastelands
- Like desert terrain
- Like land without vegetation
- Like the Badlands
- Devoid of vegetation
- Seriously lacking in vegetation
- Dry and desolate
- Infertile
- Far from arable
- Bleak
- Not fertile
- Far from fruitful
- Desolate
- Bleak and desolate
- Lacking vegetation
- Not producing fruit or seeds
- Bruce Hornsby "___ Ground"
- Noble-sounding but without issue
- To speak of nobility is fruitless
- Noble said to be childless
- Nonproductive
- Unproductive, as a lord is said to be
- Peer said to be infertile
- Unable to conceive aristo getting heard
- Lord may be heard yielding nothing
- Wasteland descriptor
- Like a moonscape
- Like a lifeless landscape
- Bare
- Like dry wastelands
- Devoid of all life
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - March 23, 2026
- Daily Quick - February 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 30, 2026
- Mirror Mini - January 14, 2026
- Daily Quick - August 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 28, 2025
- Mirror Mini - January 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 24, 2024
- New York Times - December 14, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 06, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 27, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 08, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 07, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 29, 2022
- Daily Quick - November 06, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - October 09, 2022
- Family Time - August 14, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - June 10, 2022
- Mirror Mini - January 14, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - January 05, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - December 05, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 25, 2017
- Netword - September 13, 2017
- And in 58 more crossword puzzles...