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wasteland
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wasteland has 1 sense
- wasteland(n = noun.location) barren, waste - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" has particulars: heath, heathland
is a kind of wild, wilderness
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wasteland, n.
1 an unproductive or useless area of land.
2 a place or time considered spiritually or intellectually barren.
1 an unproductive or useless area of land.
2 a place or time considered spiritually or intellectually barren.
THESAURUS
wasteland
Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, back country, backwoods, barren, barren land, barrens, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, desert, desolation, dust bowl, forests, frontier, heath, hinterland, howling wilderness, karroo, lunar landscape, lunar waste, outback, outpost, salt flat, the bush, timbers, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin land, virgin territory, waste, weary waste, wild, wild West, wilderness, wildness, wilds, woodlands, woods
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