poor and barren; infertile; used to describe land or soil that is not productive

(of land) barren; unproductive; lacking in nutrients or moisture

extremely thin or emaciated in physical appearance

(literary) the fat and the thin; the rich and the poor; the fertile and the barren. Often refers to the quality of soil or livestock

wild and barren; desolate and infertile

thin and frail; lanky or emaciated in appearance

(of land or soil) parched and poor in nutrients; infertile

The soil is poor and the population is sparse; a barren and thinly populated area

the corpse of a pauper or person who died of starvation and exposure in a ditch

to exhaust others to enrich oneself; to treat others harshly while being generous toward oneself

poor soil; barren or unproductive land

sterile or unproductive land; barrens

farmland with poor, thin soil that lacks the nutrients needed for crops to grow well

hard and infertile (of soil or land); barren

extremely thin, frail, and sickly