barren

意味: 不毛の

例文: Momo declared the fridge barren—no tuna found.
　　  モモは冷蔵庫が不毛と宣言。ツナはなかった。

定義: 開墾する価値のない、無人の未開拓地

コロケーション:

barrenは400,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
Adjective: providing no shelter or sustenance
Adjective: not bearing offspring
Adjective: completely wanting or lacking

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Adjective

Examples(例文)

Noun: the barrens of central Africa
Noun: the trackless wastes of the desert
Adjective: bare rocky hills
Adjective: barren lands
Adjective: the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
Adjective: the desolate surface of the moon
Adjective: a stark landscape
Adjective: a barren woman
Adjective: learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
Adjective: writing barren of insight
Adjective: young recruits destitute of experience
Adjective: innocent of literary merit
Adjective: the sentence was devoid of meaning

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): bare, barren, bleak, desolate, destitute, devoid, free, innocent, stark, waste, wasteland

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): wilderness

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): barren, bush, frontier

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): heath

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: bareness, barren, barrenness, bleakness, starkness, waste

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): en

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: negative, sadness