Barren
Barren adjective - Producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation.
Little and barren are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Little" instead an adjective "Barren".
Nearby Words: barrenness, barrenly
Little
Little adjective - Having relatively little height.
Barren and little are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Barren" instead an adjective "Little".
Nearby Word: littleness
Both words in one sentence
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In Sergey Lukyanenko's A Lord from Planet Earth amongst one of the Precursors' artefacts there are little one-time use devices capable of making planets barren wastelands.
Source: Borrowed Biometric Bypass -
From the little we saw of the Saiyan home world, Vegeta, the sky was red and the land was all but barren with no wildlife or vegetation to be seen.
Source: Alien Sky - In "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" the crew of a spaceship crashes on a hot, barren landscape with little hope of being rescued.
Source: Karmic Twist Ending
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