Thesaurus results for WASTELAND

wasteland

noun

ˈwāst-ˌland

as in desert

land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops with proper irrigation and fertilizer, they turned the desert wasteland into a fertile plain

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Recent Examples of wasteland But there are green shoots amid the wasteland. —

Jennifer Noyes, Air Mail, 25 Apr. 2026 The series returned earlier this year for Season 2, taking viewers on a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas. —

Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2026 In it, a crescent of Earth’s blue vitality hovers amid the blackness of space, above a high-definition brownish gray wasteland of lunar craters. —

Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026 Around another corner is Hagar in the Wilderness (1875), still inhabiting the wasteland around her after being scorned by Abraham. —

Tyehimba Jess, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for wasteland

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desert

Noun

The photo-rich hardcover follows a 1,200-mile odyssey into the heart of the world’s driest non-polar desert, the Atacama Desert in Chile.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2026
Large portions of California consist of deserts, mountains, forests, and agricultural regions with little housing development.

— James Ward, USA Today, 15 May 2026