jałowy in English:

Water from the Great Lakes is pumped to arid regions. My mind was arid, all inspiration gone.

arid landscape

more arid than the Sahara

The desert is so arid that nothing can grow there.

like arid deserts of Africa

Water from the Great Lakes is pumped to arid regions.

It's also very arid – or dry.

The crops will not grow in the arid ground because the soil is too dry

I saw animal skeleton in arid red desert. an arid climate

But once there, traversing the arid desert plains and breaking bread with the indigenous peoples, inspiration struck.

Water shortages have spread beyond the traditionally arid areas.

He prayed that his barren wife would one day have a child. The room was austere, nearly barren of furniture or decoration.

barren years

Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert.

Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes

He is barren of creative spirit.

It's a very barren landscape, it's very desolate,...

The sports hall turned out to be a rather barren concrete building

Very barren mountains but an incredibly beautiful part of the country.

I’m not saying I hadn’t a moment of regret when I first knew Hilda was barren; the genes asserting their atavistic imperatives, I suppose.

The land was barren and people couldn't grow any plants there. collocation: barren land, soil

The land was so dry and barren, Emily didn't think it would make a good spot for growing vegetables.

After the bomb blast, the land around the area was completely barren

/ˈbær.ən/ We ​drove through a barren, ​rocky ​landscape.

The definition of barren is something or someone who is not productive or fruitful, or a place with few or no plants. An example of a barren tree is a tree that makes no fruit. An example of barren is a desert where few things grow.

I am not a rhinoceros, I am not a tiger, but I am led into this barren wild...

sterile completely clean with no bacteria

I'm sterile.

I have been idle the whole day. I think it's time I went out for some exercise.

If you are idle, be not solitary, if you are solitary, be not idle.

be idle

My brother used to idle away many hours lying on the grass.

In the evening the idle man begins to be busy.

John is so idle, all he does all day is watch TV and play computer games.

Do not idle away your youth or you will regret it later.

"assembly lines standing idle for lack of spare parts"

usy people are happy people, so that is the reason why I do not like to be idle at work.

He's a very able student, he's just bone idle (= very lazy).

It’s no idle boast: in 2015 he did, after all, become only the second comic ever to win Melbourne’s Barry

Half these factories now stand idle.; It's crazy to have £7,000 sitting idle in the bank. An idle moment or period of time is one in which there is no work or activity - If you have an idle moment, call me.

Let's not spend the entire evening in idle chitchat.

Our teacher has often told us not to idle away our time.

They stood idle, instead of putting their shoulder to the wheel.