The Clue
Like a tundra (6 letter answer)
The Answer
BARREN
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Notes
The answer BARREN is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 700 puzzles.
Related Clues
Empty
Fruitless
Infertile
Sterile
Unfruitful
Unproductive
Like a wasteland
It has "bare" inside
Definition
BARREN as a noun:
1. (barren, waste, wasteland) = an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
BARREN as an adjective:
1. (bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark) = providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
2. (barren, destitute, devoid, innocent) = completely wanting or lacking; "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"
3. not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
4. incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon"