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[ adjective ] completely wanting or lacking

Examples

"writing barren of insight" "young recruits destitute of experience" "a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness" "a life empty of happiness" "innocent of literary merit" "void of understanding"

Used in print

(Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)

Her speech was barren_of southernisms ; she was one of Eliot_Sparling 's neutralized minorities , adopting the rolling R 's and constricted vowels of Los_Angeles .

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