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WASTELAND

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

Example:

the trackless wastes of the desert

Synonyms:

barren; waste; wasteland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("wasteland" is a kind of...):

wild; wilderness (a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wasteland"):

heath; heathland (a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation)

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