wasteland
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈweɪstˌlænd/
- Israel was little more than a rock-strewn wasteland with a violent history.
- a barren wasteland
- a vast wasteland
- an urban wasteland
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Watch on YouTubeIt's literally a giant wasteland with monsters in it.
- It's literally a giant wasteland with monsters in it.
- I mean, no searches for peace in a dangerous radioactive wasteland.
- Like it's like a nuclear dystopian wasteland.
- And if you look at ancient art, you see people hunting lions, trying to drive them out of these these wastelands, Right.
- I'm in a barren, icy wasteland, and I have a business decision that we need to confer about.
- And that that symbol of that sere open wasteland is just no hope.
- She would go out to like desolate beaches or wide wastelands with a bunch of nude models and shoot them in apocalyptic scenarios.
- Big parts of New Jersey are, are toxic wastelands where you know, you got to like check your food to make and you can't drink the water unless it's filtered.
- He's, you know, out in the wasteland, and he's about to call his wife.
Examples
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The plains, even then, had become a wasteland of slag heaps and railroad sidings.
Fiction book (2002) -
The old factory site turned into a wasteland filled with debris and broken glass.
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No, this is a wasteland.
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So I exist in this wasteland.
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No one goes near that wasteland.
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Suppose you find nothing but wasteland?
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A beacon in this vast and dark wasteland that is our modern world.
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The rest of the day was a wasteland of paper, old reports, and conjectures.
Fiction book (1994) -
You said there's city and there's country, and everything else is a wasteland.
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The vast, dissolute city was for me a wasteland, the refuge of my pleasures.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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7.5
A large empty area of land with little or no life
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8.7
Dry land with steep, worn hills and little plant life
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7.4
An area of land where little grows and people do not live
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6.6
An area of land covered with short bushes and grasses that is hard to farm
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8.6
Open land with low bushes like heather and poor sandy soil
Antonyms
How Barren
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wasteland comes from the two words waste and land. Waste once meant 'empty' or 'ruined', so a wasteland is land that is empty, uncultivated, and not good for farming or living.