Related Words for wasteland

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waste
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Noun, Noun
barren
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Noun, Noun, Adjective
desert
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Noun
hellhole
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Noun
wilderness
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Noun
badland
/x
Noun
desolation
xx/x
Noun
godforsaken
/x/x
Noun
oasis
x/x
Noun
backwater
/xx
Noun
oblivion
x/xx
Noun
inhospitable
x/xxx
Adjective
overgrown
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Adjective
uninhabited
xx/xx
Adjective
expanse
x/
Noun
metropolis
x/xx
Noun
megalopolis
xx/xx
Noun
swamp
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Noun
bleak
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Adjective
derelict
/xx
Noun, Adjective
junkyard
/x
Noun
outpost
/x
Noun
marshland
/x
Noun
utopia
x/xx
Noun
wonderland
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Noun
lifeless
/x
Adjective
netherworld
/xx
Noun
jungle
/x
Noun
rubble
/x
Noun
swampy
/x
Adjective
slum
/
Noun
tundra
/x
Noun
blighted
/x
Adjective
paradise
/xx
Noun
cesspool
/x
Noun
dystopia
//xx
Noun
ghetto
/x
Noun
heartland
/x
Noun
soulless
/x
Adjective
forlorn
x/
Adjective
prairie
/x
Noun
woodland
/x
Noun
suburbia
x/xx
Noun
ruins
/x
Noun
eyesore
/x
Noun
abyss
x/
Noun
decrepit
x/x
Adjective
squalor
/x
Noun
detritus
x/x
Noun
hellish
/x
Adjective
grassland
/x
Noun
borderland
/xx
Noun
drab
/
Noun
purgatory
/xxx
Noun
hovel
/x
Noun
wildland
/x
Noun
wold
/
Name
scorched earth
/x
Phrase, Noun, Adjective
sands
/
Noun
war zone
//
Phrase, Noun
vacant lot
/x/
Phrase, Noun
hinterland
/xx
Noun
field
/
Noun
lande
/
Noun
wild
/
Adjective
impasse
x/
Noun
westland
/x
Name
disaster area
x/x/xx
Phrase, Noun
land
/
Noun
countryside
/xx
Noun
dump
/
Noun
scary
/x
Adjective
bottomless pit
/xx/
Phrase, Noun
plain
/
Noun
graveyard
/x
Noun
wadi
/x
Noun
dumping ground
/x/
Phrase, Noun
butt
/
Noun
fallow
/x
Noun
wall
/
Noun
weald
/
Name
rubbish dump
/x/
Phrase, Noun
swidden
/x
Noun
outback
/x
Noun
steppe
/
Noun
terra incognita
/x/x/x
Phrase, Noun
foreland
/x
Noun
area
/xx
Noun
forestland
/xx
Noun
rock
/
Noun
place
/
Noun
wald
/
Name
landfall
/x
Noun
karoo
x/
Name
backwoods
//
Noun
westward
/x
Noun
sweep
/
Noun
gulf
/
Noun
minefield
/x
Noun
landfill
/x
Noun
headland
/x
Noun
scar
/
Noun
wash
/
Noun
battleground
/xx
Noun
dry lake
//
Phrase, Noun
clearing
/x
Noun
frontier
x/
Noun
wanderer
/xx
Noun
mou
x
Name
uninhabitable
xx/xxx
Adjective
reclamation
xx/x
Noun
napier
/xx
Name
cultivable
/xxx
Adjective
waterless
/xx
Adjective
reclaimed
x/
Verb, Adjective
redeeming
x/x
Verb
trackless
/x
Adjective
hectares
/x
Noun
stretches
/x
Noun
treeless
/x
Adjective
farmland
/x
Noun
stumps
/
Noun
arid
/x
Adjective
scorched
/
Adjective
irrigate
/xx
Verb
parched
/
Adjective
devastated
/xxx
Adjective
uncultivated
x/xxx
Adjective
patch
/
Noun
frozen
/x
Adjective
scrubby
/x
Adjective
dunes
/
Noun
tracts
/
Noun
battlefield
/xx
Noun
desertification
/xxx/x
Noun
emptiness
/xx
Noun
heath
/
Noun
moorland
/x
Noun
morass
x/
Noun
mountainside
/xx
Noun
sewer
/x
Noun, Verb
stagnation
x/x
Noun
vague
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
wave
/
Noun, Verb
die
/
Verb, Noun
fall
/
Verb, Noun
blow
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
off
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
gloss
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Noun, Verb
save
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Verb, Noun
breakeven
/xx
Verb, Noun, Adjective
pidgin
/x
Noun