What is the meaning of barren?

noun

• An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.
  • usage: "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
  • synonyms: waste, wasteland

adjective

• Providing no shelter or sustenance.
  • usage: "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
  • synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark
• Not bearing offspring.
  • usage: "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
• Completely wanting or lacking.
  • usage: "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
  • synonyms: destitute, devoid, free, innocent