wasteland.
A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
Meaning & usage
A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.
Any barren or uninteresting place.
After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.
A devastated, uninhabitable area.
Unused land.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English wast lond, modification of earlier weste lond, from Old English weste land (“wasteland”); equivalent to waste + land.
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