wasteland

4 definitions • 4 examples

an empty area of land, especially in or near a city, that is not used to grow crops or built on, or used in any way:

The car was dumped in a stretch of wasteland in the south of the city.

a place, time, or situation that does not contain or produce anything positive, or that is completely without a particular quality or activity:

the spiritual wasteland of the 1980s

a large area of land that has not been developed, usually because it cannot be easily used:

Rain forests are being transformed into barren wasteland.

A wasteland can also be anything that seems to lack positive qualities:

Television is a vast wasteland.