Barren
Barren adjective - Utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected.
Usage example: their proposal for revitalizing the downtown business district is utterly barren of useful ideas
Innocent is a synonym for barren in full topic. In some cases you can use "Innocent" instead an adjective "Barren".
Nearby Words: barrenness, barrenly
Both words in one sentence
- After enlisting the help of a sorceress in order for his barren wife to conceive, he set about killing and terrorising everyone who practised sorcery (even those who did so for perfectly innocent reasons) even though he had no one to blame for his wife's death except himself.
Source: Hypocrite / Live-Action TV - Lost in the Maize: In "The Innocent" the gang discover Lisa, a psychokinetic young girl with nearly godlike powers and, when people threaten her or do things that make her unhappy she dispatches them to a dark barren negaspace to be rid of them.
Source: Series / Logan's Run
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