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Another word for wasteland

noun

A tract of unproductive land:

badlands, barren (often used in plural), desert¹, waste, wilderness. See rich

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It was a desolate wasteland except for some grazing sheep.
The pejorative term "wasteland" is proposed to be replaced by the term "urban commons."
The original Mad Max movie gave no explanation of how Australia, where the film is set in the near future, degenerated into the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the film.
Lee's ex-wife Dualla committed suicide after the fleet finally discovered Earth and learned that it was a nuclear wasteland.
Environments will continue to grow, making feats like load-screen-free games (as in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland and the Xbox's SSX 2) more commonplace.

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