wasteland

noun

1. 1

   A place with no remaining resources; a desert.

   Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.

   2007, Kai Hansen, "To Mother Earth", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free II. Here create another wasteland / On and on 'til nothing's there / Here it comes, the devastation / Poisoning the air

2. 2

   Any barren or uninteresting place.

   After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.

   Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

3. 3

   A devastated, uninhabitable area.

   Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.

   How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland?

   Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.

4. 4

   Unused land.

   Azaz and Ray were nominated individually for what, at first glance, looked like a project to transform wasteland at South Tottenham station into a community garden.

Forms

plural

wastelands