Hyphenation of barren

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word barren? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of barren:

1.	An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation The barrens of central Africa The trackless wastes of the desert
2.	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
3.	Not bearing offspring A barren woman Learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
4.	Completely wanting or lacking Writing barren of insight Young recruits destitute of experience Innocent of literary merit The sentence was devoid of meaning

Synonyms of barren:

adj	bare, bleak, desolate, stark, inhospitable
adj	sterile, unfertile, infertile
adj	dead
noun	waste, wasteland, wilderness, wild

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.