Difference between Wastelands and Barren

WASTELANDS vs BARREN: NOUN

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

Lacking in liveliness or interest.
Devoid of something specified.
Unproductive of results or gains; unprofitable: : futile.
Lacking vegetation, especially useful vegetation.
Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of female animals.
Providing no shelter or sustenance
Not bearing offspring
Incapable of sustaining life
Completely wanting or lacking
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; sterile.
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
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.
Not productive
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
Bleak

Devoid; lacking; wanting: with of: as, a hill barren of trees; a mind barren of ideas.
Not producing or leading to anything; profitless; fruitless: as, barren tears; a barren attachment.
Destitute of interest or attraction; unsuggestive; uninstructive; bald; bare: as, a barren list of names.
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.
Mentally unproductive; unresponsive; dull; stupid.
Incapable of producing or that does not produce its kind: applied to animals and plants.
To render barren or unproductive.
In particular— Sterile; castrated: said of male animals.

Wanderer, Dystopia, Paradises, Tundras, Swamps, Moonscape, Hinterlands, Ghettos, Jungles, Badlands, Moonscapes, Deserts, Culturable, Waste, Barren

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

Riversides, Wonderland, Hovels, Wilds, Wanderer, Dystopia, Tundras, Moonscape, Ghettos, Jungles, Badlands, Moonscapes, Culturable, Waste, Barren

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

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.