LekhoriLekhoriNot bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?
Not bearing seed or fruit.
Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
barren mountain tracts
An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
Sol squinted out over the barrens to where the mountains shimmered in the heat haze.
In particular, a usually elevated and flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs, and sometimes mosses or heathers, berries, and other marshy or moory vegetation, but little agriculture and few people.
From Middle English bareyne, from Anglo-Norman baraigne, baraing (“sterile; barren”), of obscure origin; probably from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *baʀ (“bare; barren”), from Proto-Germanic ...
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The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.