The Clue
Unproductive (6 letter answer)
The Answer
BARREN
Tags
Notes
The answer BARREN is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 700 puzzles.
Related Clues
Empty
Fruitless
Infertile
Sterile
Unfruitful
Like a tundra
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"