Difference between Barren and Desolate

BARREN vs DESOLATE: NOUN

A tract or region of more or less unproductive land, partly or entirely treeless.
A tract of barren land.
Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
A tract of unproductive land, often with a scrubby growth of trees.

Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; sterile.
Mentally dull; stupid.
A flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which has neither stamens nor pistils.
A vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions.
A peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe.
A small reindeer (Rangifer Grœnlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland.
Unable to bear children; sterile
Of poor fertility, infertile
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Not productive
Incapable of sustaining life
Providing no shelter or sustenance
Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of female animals.
Lacking vegetation, especially useful vegetation.
Unproductive of results or gains; unprofitable: : futile.
Devoid of something specified.
Lacking in liveliness or interest.
Bleak
Not bearing offspring
Completely wanting or lacking

Destitute of interest or attraction; unsuggestive; uninstructive; bald; bare: as, a barren list of names.
Not producing or leading to anything; profitless; fruitless: as, barren tears; a barren attachment.
Devoid; lacking; wanting: with of: as, a hill barren of trees; a mind barren of ideas.
Mentally unproductive; unresponsive; dull; stupid.
Void of vital germs.
In mining, unproductive; unprofitable: applied to rocks.
Producing little or no vegetation; unproductive; unfruitful; sterile: applied to land.
Not bearing or pregnant at the usual season: said of female animals: as, barren heifers.
Bearing no children; childless; without issue: said of a woman.
Without fruit or seed: said of trees or plants.
In particular— Sterile; castrated: said of male animals.
Incapable of producing or that does not produce its kind: applied to animals and plants.
To render barren or unproductive.

To render lonely, as a place or region, by depopulation or devastation; make desert; lay waste; ruin; ravage.
To overwhelm with grief; afflict; make very sorry or weary: as, his heart was desolated by his loss; your misfortune desolates me; to be desolated by ennui.
Solitary; lonely; without companionship; forsaken.
Overwhelmed with grief; deprived of comfort; afflicted.
Destitute; lacking.
Destitute of inhabitants; uninhabited; lonely; abandoned: as, a desolate wilderness; desolate altars; desolate towers.
Lost to shame; abandoned; dissolute.
Synonyms Companionless.
Forlorn, cheerless, miserable, wretched.
Abandoned, unfrequented, lonely, waste, wild, barren, dreary.
Leave in the lurch

Uncultivated, Arid, Waste, Childless, Dead, Unfruitful, Stark, Infertile, Sterile, Bare, Bleak, Unfertile, Inhospitable, Wasteland, Desolate

Inconsolable, Ruined, Depopulate, Bare, Devastated, Forsaken, Ravaged, Stark, Disconsolate, Bleak, Desert, Inhospitable, Godforsaken, Forlorn, Barren

Uncultivated, Arid, Waste, Childless, Dead, Unfruitful, Stark, Infertile, Sterile, Bare, Bleak, Unfertile, Inhospitable, Wasteland, Desolate

Inconsolable, Ruined, Depopulate, Bare, Devastated, Forsaken, Ravaged, Stark, Disconsolate, Bleak, Desert, Inhospitable, Godforsaken, Forlorn, Barren

Mountain area, sands and barren ground outflowing water.
New Caprica or Kobol were barren and gloomy.
Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Would this be a barren and boring life?
The barren women will then truly be blessed.
Stronger are your feet than the barren stone!
Barren County Fair, Beauty pageants, Miss Barren County, Fair Beauty pageants, how do I register for the Beauty pageant, kids beauty pageant.
For example, the Barren County Tax Assessor may also serve as the Barren County Tax Appraiser.
Jim travels to the far north, the barren lands of the Northwest Territories, to go after the barren land grizzly bear.
Watered by Little Barren and the Beaver branch of Big Barren River, tributary of Green.

It causes every growing desolate and desert spots.
Garden of Eden, behind them a desolate wilderness.
Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places, Alan Hovhaness.
Where will I go in this desolate scene?
Yes, the landscape in Antarctica is quite desolate.
He shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
36:34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
Egypt desolate, and the country shall be desolate of that whereof it was full.
Egypt desolate, and it will be surrounded by other desolate nations.