Wasteland
noun
A place that is not used, empty and neglected, usually due to disaster or neglect.
After the earthquake, the city turned into a wasteland.
Often appears as...
- turn into a wasteland
- barren wasteland
noun
A time or place of intellectual or moral decay.
The lack of educational resources turned the school into an intellectual wasteland.
Often appears as...
- intellectual wasteland
- moral wasteland
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Disapproving
noun
A place where nothing can grow or be fruitful.
Due to severe drougth, the farm has become a wasteland.
Often appears as...
- agricultural wasteland
- barren wasteland
noun
A place that is not used, empty and neglected, usually due to disaster or neglect.
After the earthquake, the city turned into a wasteland.
Often appears as...
- turn into a wasteland
- barren wasteland
noun
A time or place of intellectual or moral decay.
The lack of educational resources turned the school into an intellectual wasteland.
Often appears as...
- intellectual wasteland
- moral wasteland
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A place where nothing can grow or be fruitful.
Due to severe drougth, the farm has become a wasteland.
Often appears as...
- agricultural wasteland
- barren wasteland
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Neglect Evident
Use 'wasteland' to describe areas abandoned or untouched due to lack of care.
The once-busy mall is now a wasteland.
Pro Tip 2/3After Disaster
'Wasteland' can emphasize desolation resulting from natural or man-made disasters.
The town became a wasteland after the factory shut down.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Impact
Wasteland often evokes strong, bleak imagery of bareness and desolation.
A wasteland spread before us, devoid of life.
Pro Tip 1/3Neglect Evident
Use 'wasteland' to describe areas abandoned or untouched due to lack of care.
The once-busy mall is now a wasteland.
Pro Tip 2/3After Disaster
'Wasteland' can emphasize desolation resulting from natural or man-made disasters.
The town became a wasteland after the factory shut down.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Impact
Wasteland often evokes strong, bleak imagery of bareness and desolation.
A wasteland spread before us, devoid of life.
Pro Tip 1/3Neglect Evident
Use 'wasteland' to describe areas abandoned or untouched due to lack of care.
The once-busy mall is now a wasteland.
Pro Tip 2/3After Disaster
'Wasteland' can emphasize desolation resulting from natural or man-made disasters.
The town became a wasteland after the factory shut down.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Impact
Wasteland often evokes strong, bleak imagery of bareness and desolation.
A wasteland spread before us, devoid of life.
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Spotting the World's...
there's very little nutrients in there. And so trees take a huge amount of time to take hold. But one of the first ones that will do is Birch, and you can see one right there. For decades now, nature has been slowly reclaiming this quarry, and what was once a gray, barren wasteland is now showing signs of life. He's in the tree.
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George Steinmetz: Seeing...
miracles it started deserts are not just hot environments they're also the world's highest environments and the coldest environments this is the Dry Valleys of Antarctica biggest ice-free area in article most people don't realize that artic as a desert they just think it's a you know a frozen wasteland but it's a
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Why Are Plankton the...
oceans would be a barren wasteland of watery nothingness but it doesn't stop in the water with the foundation of the food chain gone seabirds with nothing to eat would soon fall from the sky seals dead through hunger polar bears yep they're goners - and this is where a world without plankton would start to
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Amina J. Mohammed: A new...
Will it be an ocean of opportunity? It could be. Or will it be a wasteland of dust as far as the eyes can see? She's asking that question of all leaders who hold her future in their hands, and she's also asking it of all of us here today and around the world.
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Just add water: The...
a relentless advance that transforms pastures and farms into barren wastelands. These are desert locusts— infamous among their locust cousins for their massive swarms and capacity for destruction. But these insects aren't always so insatiable.
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Stunning Photos of the...
of who we are as a country as any of these other wildernesses. It's just a different kind of wild. But I'm encouraged, because maybe we're finally starting to come around, because what was once deemed this swampy wasteland,
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Deserts 101 PIPE National...
- Wind whips over a barren wasteland. Vast nothingness as far as the eye can see, or so it may seem. Creatures peek out of burrows, scurry across the sand, and soar through the sky, revealing a landscape not as lifeless
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Why does the universe...
the theory of inflation, which predicts a big, infinite, messy, arbitrary, pointless reality, it's like a big frothing champagne coming out of a bottle endlessly, a vast universe, mostly a wasteland
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How to rebuild the world...
find ourselves in this post-apocalyptic wasteland what now what would you need to know not just to survive in the immediate aftermath but to thrive in the long-term
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6 Degrees Warmer: Mass...
if the world warms by six degrees from a distance the oceans may appear bright blue but they are marine wastelands
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Spotting the World's...
there's very little nutrients in there. And so trees take a huge amount of time to take hold. But one of the first ones that will do is Birch, and you can see one right there. For decades now, nature has been slowly reclaiming this quarry, and what was once a gray, barren wasteland is now showing signs of life. He's in the tree.
Video examples
George Steinmetz: Seeing...
miracles it started deserts are not just hot environments they're also the world's highest environments and the coldest environments this is the Dry Valleys of Antarctica biggest ice-free area in article most people don't realize that artic as a desert they just think it's a you know a frozen wasteland but it's a
Video examples
Why Are Plankton the...
oceans would be a barren wasteland of watery nothingness but it doesn't stop in the water with the foundation of the food chain gone seabirds with nothing to eat would soon fall from the sky seals dead through hunger polar bears yep they're goners - and this is where a world without plankton would start to
Video examples
Amina J. Mohammed: A new...
Will it be an ocean of opportunity? It could be. Or will it be a wasteland of dust as far as the eyes can see? She's asking that question of all leaders who hold her future in their hands, and she's also asking it of all of us here today and around the world.
Video examples
Just add water: The...
a relentless advance that transforms pastures and farms into barren wastelands. These are desert locusts— infamous among their locust cousins for their massive swarms and capacity for destruction. But these insects aren't always so insatiable.
Video examples
Stunning Photos of the...
of who we are as a country as any of these other wildernesses. It's just a different kind of wild. But I'm encouraged, because maybe we're finally starting to come around, because what was once deemed this swampy wasteland,
Video examples
Deserts 101 PIPE National...
- Wind whips over a barren wasteland. Vast nothingness as far as the eye can see, or so it may seem. Creatures peek out of burrows, scurry across the sand, and soar through the sky, revealing a landscape not as lifeless
Video examples
Why does the universe...
the theory of inflation, which predicts a big, infinite, messy, arbitrary, pointless reality, it's like a big frothing champagne coming out of a bottle endlessly, a vast universe, mostly a wasteland
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
find ourselves in this post-apocalyptic wasteland what now what would you need to know not just to survive in the immediate aftermath but to thrive in the long-term
Video examples
6 Degrees Warmer: Mass...
if the world warms by six degrees from a distance the oceans may appear bright blue but they are marine wastelands
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Quote examples
Steven Yeun
South Korean Actor
People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as others, the misconception is not true. It is definitely not a thriving community in Detroit, but it is getting there. There is a lot of heart and love in this city.
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Steven Hatfill
American Scientist
I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.
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Milo Yiannopoulos
British Activist
As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and broken dreams. But now I know that's just Detroit. It's only the Democrat-controlled areas that are a disaster.
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John Quelch
American Educator
Instant, soluble coffee has long been the unspeakable wasteland of the coffee business. Conventional wisdom would be that no premium brand should go near it. But Howard Schultz's vision from day one has been to bring quality coffee to the mass market.
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Henry Paulson
American Public Servant
It's better to have the taxpayer pay for the losses than have the United States of America become an economic wasteland. If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.
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Henry Rollins
American Musician
Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.
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Whit Stillman
American Director
I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.
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Sasha Alexander
American Actress
Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.
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Robin Sloan
American Author
The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read than we ever have in history.
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Mahesh Bhatt
Indian Director
Arth' was born at a stage of my life when I had gone through an emotional wasteland.
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Steven Yeun
South Korean Actor
People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as others, the misconception is not true. It is definitely not a thriving community in Detroit, but it is getting there. There is a lot of heart and love in this city.
Quote examples
Steven Hatfill
American Scientist
I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.
Quote examples
Milo Yiannopoulos
British Activist
As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and broken dreams. But now I know that's just Detroit. It's only the Democrat-controlled areas that are a disaster.
Quote examples
John Quelch
American Educator
Instant, soluble coffee has long been the unspeakable wasteland of the coffee business. Conventional wisdom would be that no premium brand should go near it. But Howard Schultz's vision from day one has been to bring quality coffee to the mass market.
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Henry Paulson
American Public Servant
It's better to have the taxpayer pay for the losses than have the United States of America become an economic wasteland. If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.
Quote examples
Henry Rollins
American Musician
Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.
Quote examples
Whit Stillman
American Director
I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.
Quote examples
Sasha Alexander
American Actress
Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.
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Robin Sloan
American Author
The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read than we ever have in history.
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Mahesh Bhatt
Indian Director
Arth' was born at a stage of my life when I had gone through an emotional wasteland.
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