Barren vs False - What's the difference?
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(label) Unable to bear children; sterile.
Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation.
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Bleak.
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, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
* (1796-1859)
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= Mentally dull; stupid.
* (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet), III.ii. ca. 1602
An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun barren
is bar.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.barren
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- I silently wept as my daughter's husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren ?
- barren mountain tracts
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
- brilliant but barren reveries
- Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter.
Bulgaria 0-3 England, passage=Rooney had been suffered a barren spell for England with only one goal in 15 games but he was in no mood to ignore the gifts on offer in front of an increasingly subdued Bulgarian support.}}
- Set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too.
Synonyms
* sterileAntonyms
* fertile * fruitfulNoun
(en noun)- The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.
false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}