wasteland

The word “wasteland” has 2 syllables: waste-land

It's pronounced as /ˈweɪst.lænd/


What is synonym and antonym for wasteland?

In the thesaurus, “wasteland” has 21 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for wasteland along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for wasteland

  • badland
  • badlands
  • barren
  • brush
  • bush
  • desert
  • desolation
  • dust bowl
  • heath
  • marsh
  • moor
  • nature
  • open
  • open air
  • out-of-doors
  • outdoors
  • swamp
  • waste
  • wild
  • wilderness
  • wilds

Meanings of wasteland

  • noun
    1. A region with no remaining resources; a desert.
    2. Any barren or uninteresting place.

Example Sentences

  • After years of drought, the once-fertile land turned into a wasteland.
  • The abandoned city had become a desolate wasteland.
  • Scientists worked to restore vegetation in the barren wasteland.
  • The nuclear disaster left the region as an uninhabitable wasteland.
  • What was once a thriving forest is now a lifeless wasteland.

On this page you'll find 21 synonyms or another words to wasteland, such as: badland, badlands, barren, brush, bush, desert, desolation.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

badland

  • Sahara
  • arid region
  • back country
  • back of beyond
  • backwoods
  • barren
  • barren land
  • barrens
  • boondocks
  • boonies
  • bush
  • country
  • desert
  • flats
  • forest
  • frontier
  • hinterland
  • jungle
  • lava bed
  • middle of nowhere
  • nature
  • open
  • open air
  • out-of-doors
  • outback
  • outdoors
  • outside
  • primeval forest
  • sand dunes
  • solitude
  • sticks
  • up-country
  • waste
  • wasteland
  • wild
  • wilderness
  • wilds
  • without

nature

  • alpha and omega
  • anatomy
  • angle
  • aspect
  • attitude
  • attribute
  • attributes
  • backwoods
  • badland
  • barren
  • being
  • belief
  • bottom line
  • bracket
  • brand
  • breed
  • bunch
  • bush
  • cast
  • category
  • center
  • character
  • characteristic
  • cheer
  • class
  • clay
  • color
  • colors
  • complexion
  • composition
  • conformation
  • constitution
  • conviction
  • core
  • cosmos
  • country
  • countryside
  • creation
  • description
  • desert
  • disposition
  • distinctiveness
  • distinctness
  • division
  • drift
  • earmark
  • embodiment
  • emotion
  • environment
  • epitome
  • essence
  • essentiality
  • existence
  • expression
  • family
  • feather
  • feature
  • features
  • feeling
  • figure
  • flavor
  • forest
  • frame
  • framework
  • frontier
  • generation
  • genius
  • genre
  • gist
  • grade
  • grain
  • group
  • grouping
  • habit
  • hallmark
  • heart
  • hinterland
  • humor
  • identity
  • ilk
  • incarnation
  • inclination
  • individualism
  • individuality
  • interior
  • interiority
  • judgement
  • judgment
  • kernel
  • keynote
  • kidney
  • kind
  • landscape
  • like
  • lot
  • macrocosm
  • makeup
  • manifestation
  • manner
  • mark
  • marrow
  • meat
  • megacosm
  • metal
  • mettle
  • mind
  • mind-set
  • mode
  • model
  • mood
  • name of game
  • name of the game
  • name of tune
  • natural history
  • nature of beast
  • notion
  • nub
  • open
  • open air
  • opinion
  • order
  • out-of-doors
  • outdoors
  • outlook
  • outside
  • passion
  • personality
  • personification
  • perspective
  • persuasion
  • pith
  • point
  • property
  • quality
  • quiddity
  • quintessence
  • reality
  • responsiveness
  • sample
  • savor
  • savour
  • scenery
  • score
  • seascape
  • seat
  • self
  • self-identity
  • selfhood
  • sensibility
  • sensitiveness
  • sensitivity
  • sentiment
  • set
  • setting
  • setup
  • shape
  • singularity
  • slant
  • sort
  • soul
  • species
  • specimen
  • spirit
  • stamp
  • standpoint
  • sticks
  • strain
  • stripe
  • structure
  • stuff
  • style
  • substance
  • suite
  • temper
  • temperament
  • texture
  • tone
  • trait
  • traits
  • type
  • uniqueness
  • universe
  • up-country
  • variety
  • vein
  • view
  • viewpoint
  • waste
  • wasteland
  • way
  • wild
  • wilderness
  • without
  • world

waste

  • amplitude
  • annihilate
  • arid
  • assassinate
  • atrophy
  • attrition
  • badland
  • badlands
  • baked
  • bankrupted
  • barren
  • be of no avail
  • beat
  • best
  • blast
  • bleak
  • blot out
  • blow
  • blow up
  • bog
  • boney
  • bony
  • breadth
  • break
  • break down
  • breakdown
  • brush
  • brushland
  • burn up
  • bush
  • butcher
  • castoff
  • chaff
  • clobber
  • compass
  • conquer
  • consume
  • consumed
  • coprolite
  • corrode
  • corrosion
  • cream
  • cripple
  • crud
  • crumble
  • crush
  • cull
  • cut down
  • damage
  • dead
  • deadwood
  • debilitate
  • debilitated
  • debris
  • decay
  • decimate
  • decline
  • decomposition
  • decrease
  • deface
  • defeat
  • dehydrated
  • demolish
  • deplete
  • depleted
  • depredate
  • depress
  • depth
  • desecrate
  • desert
  • desolate
  • desolation
  • despoil
  • destroy
  • destruction
  • deteriorate
  • detritus
  • devastate
  • devastation
  • devitalize
  • devour
  • dilapidate
  • dilapidation
  • diminished
  • dirt
  • disable
  • disappear
  • disassemble
  • disburse
  • discard
  • disfigure
  • disintegrate
  • disintegration
  • dismantle
  • dispatch
  • dissipate
  • dissipation
  • dissolution
  • dissolve
  • distance
  • disuse
  • divert
  • do in
  • domain
  • doo-doo
  • drain
  • drained
  • dreck
  • dregs
  • drek
  • dried-up
  • droop
  • dropping
  • dross
  • droughty
  • drub
  • dry
  • dump
  • dung
  • dunghill
  • dust
  • dust bowl
  • dynamite
  • eat away
  • ebb
  • efface
  • effluvia
  • effluvium
  • emaciate
  • emptiness
  • empty
  • enervate
  • enfeeble
  • enfeebled
  • eradicate
  • erode
  • erosion
  • etiolate
  • excess
  • excrement
  • excreta
  • execute
  • exhaust
  • exhausted
  • exhaustion
  • expanse
  • expansion
  • expend
  • expended
  • expenditure
  • expunge
  • extension
  • extent
  • exterminate
  • extinguish
  • extirpate
  • extravagance
  • fade
  • feces
  • fell
  • fen
  • fiddle away
  • field
  • flotsam
  • fritter
  • fritter away
  • frivol away
  • gamble away
  • gamut
  • garbage
  • gnaw
  • go to waste
  • guano
  • gut
  • hamstring
  • hand-me-down
  • hardscrabble
  • harm
  • havoc
  • heath
  • hogwash
  • hurt
  • immensity
  • immoderacy
  • impair
  • impoverish
  • impoverished
  • improvidence
  • incapacitate
  • indulge
  • indulgence
  • infertile
  • inhospitable
  • injure
  • invalid
  • jetsam
  • jungle
  • junk
  • kill
  • kill off
  • latitude
  • lavish
  • lavishness
  • lay out
  • lay up
  • lay waste
  • leavings
  • leftovers
  • length
  • lessened
  • lick
  • lifeless
  • liquidate
  • litter
  • loot
  • lose
  • loss
  • lost opportunity
  • lumber
  • luxury
  • magnitude
  • make ducks and drakes of
  • mangle
  • manure
  • mar
  • marsh
  • marshland
  • massacre
  • master
  • midden
  • misapplication
  • misapply
  • misemploy
  • misspend
  • misuse
  • moor
  • muck
  • murder
  • mutilate
  • nature
  • night soil
  • nothing
  • nuke
  • obliterate
  • odds and ends
  • offal
  • offscouring
  • offscourings
  • open
  • open air
  • ordure
  • out-of-doors
  • outdoors
  • overbear
  • overcome
  • overdoing
  • overindulge
  • overindulgence
  • overkill
  • overmatch
  • overspend
  • paralyze
  • parched
  • perish
  • pillage
  • plain
  • play ducks and drakes with
  • plunder
  • poop
  • poor
  • pour down the drain
  • prodigality
  • profligacy
  • profusion
  • prostrate
  • pull down
  • pulverize
  • quagmire
  • raffle
  • rainless
  • range
  • rape
  • ravage
  • raze
  • reach
  • reduce
  • reduced
  • refuse
  • reject
  • remains
  • remove
  • riffraff
  • rout
  • rub out
  • rubbish
  • rubble
  • ruin
  • ruins
  • rummage
  • run dry
  • run through
  • sack
  • sap
  • scale
  • scat
  • scope
  • scotch
  • scour
  • scrap
  • scrap heap
  • sear
  • self-indulgence
  • sere
  • sewage
  • sewerage
  • shatter
  • sheet
  • shoot
  • sink
  • skunk
  • slaughter
  • slay
  • slop
  • slops
  • smash
  • soften
  • soil
  • solitude
  • span
  • spectrum
  • spend
  • spent
  • sphere
  • spilth
  • splurge
  • spoil
  • spoliate
  • spoor
  • spread
  • squander
  • squandering
  • stark
  • stool
  • straw
  • stretch
  • subdue
  • sunbaked
  • surmount
  • swamp
  • sweep
  • sweepings
  • swill
  • take down
  • take out
  • tear down
  • territory
  • thin
  • thirsty
  • thrash
  • throw away
  • throwaway
  • tire
  • total
  • trample
  • trash
  • trifle away
  • trim
  • trounce
  • truck
  • trumpery
  • tundra
  • two bits
  • unbuild
  • uncultivable
  • undermine
  • undermining
  • undo
  • unfertile
  • unmake
  • unman
  • unproductive
  • unthriftiness
  • untillable
  • used up
  • vandalize
  • vaporize
  • vitiate
  • void
  • wallop
  • wane
  • wash
  • wash out
  • wastage
  • wastefulness
  • wasteland
  • waterless
  • weaken
  • wear
  • wear down
  • wear out
  • whip
  • wild
  • wilderness
  • wilds
  • wilt
  • wipe out
  • wither
  • wrack
  • wreak havoc
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • zap

badlands

  • barren
  • barrens
  • brushes
  • bushes
  • desert
  • deserts
  • desolations
  • dust bowls
  • heaths
  • natures
  • outdoors
  • waste
  • wasteland
  • wastelands
  • wastes
  • wildernesses
  • wilds

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