Wasteland

//ˈweɪs(t)ˌland//

Synonyms for "wasteland" (53 found)

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More general

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Synonyms

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Related terms

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dbpedia genre

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derived from

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is a

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related to

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Translations

106 translations across 44 languages.

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Albanian

2 entries
  • djerrinë noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • qezëm noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Arabic

1 entries
  • أَرْض خَرَاب noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Belarusian

3 entries
  • пу́стка noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • пусты́р noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • пустэ́ча noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • пу́стош noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Catalan

3 entries
  • erm noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • ermot noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • ermàs noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 單調的地方 /单调的地方 noun (barren and uninteresting place)
  • 废土 noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • 荒地 noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Czech

3 entries
  • poušť noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • pustina noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • pustina noun (barren and uninteresting place)

Danish

2 entries
  • ødemark noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • ødemark noun (barren and uninteresting place)

Dutch

1 entries
  • woestenij noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • dezerto noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • senkultivejo noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Estonian

2 entries
  • kõnnumaa noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • tühermaa noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Faroese

3 entries
  • oyðiland noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • oyðilendi noun (barren and uninteresting place)
  • oyðimørk noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Finnish

4 entries
  • autiomaa noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • erämaa noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • joutomaa noun (barren and uninteresting place)
  • kitumaa noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

French

2 entries
  • désert noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • friche noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Galician

2 entries
  • deserto noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • ermo noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

German

4 entries
  • Wüste noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • Wüstenei noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • Wüstenlandschaft noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • Ödland noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • ישימון noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Hindi

3 entries
  • बंजर noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • बीहड़ noun (barren and uninteresting place)
  • मरुस्थल noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • (kietlen) pusztaság noun (barren and uninteresting place)
  • sivatag noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Icelandic

4 entries
  • auðn noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • auðn noun (barren and uninteresting place)
  • eyðimörk noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • eyðimörk noun (barren and uninteresting place)

Irish

1 entries
  • fásach noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 荒地 noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Korean

2 entries
  • 황무지 noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • 황지 noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Latin

2 entries
  • vastitas noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • āvia noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Latvian

1 entries
  • tuksneša zeme noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • dykynė noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • пу́стина noun (barren and uninteresting place)
  • пу́стош noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • пусте́лија noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • пусте́лија noun (barren and uninteresting place)

Māori

2 entries
  • tuakau noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • tuakau noun (barren and uninteresting place)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • ødemark noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • øydemark noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Occitan

2 entries
  • ermàs noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • èrm noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Old English

1 entries
  • hæþ noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • چول noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Polish

1 entries
  • pustkowie noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • deserto noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • terreno baldio noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Russian

4 entries
  • боло́то noun (barren and uninteresting place)
  • дыра́ noun (barren and uninteresting place)
  • пу́стошь noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • пусты́ня noun (barren and uninteresting place)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • fàsach noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • pustoš noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Slovak

2 entries
  • pustatina noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • púšť noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Spanish

4 entries
  • baldío noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • barbechera noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • barbecho noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • desierto noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Swedish

3 entries
  • ödemark noun (barren and uninteresting place)
  • öken noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • ökenmark noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Telugu

1 entries
  • బంజరు noun (barren and uninteresting place)

Turkish

2 entries
  • çoraklık noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • çöl noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • пу́стище noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • пу́стка noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • пусти́р noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • пустири́ще noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Welsh

2 entries
  • diffaith noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)
  • diffeithdir noun (region with no remaining resources; desert)

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Over the next fifteen years, architects, planners and community developers will work together to transform 346 acres of industrial wasteland into 6,500 homes, two shopping centres, a marina, a primary school and college, and parkland.

Source: tatoeba (765221)

The whole island was a wasteland of ice, whipped by freezing storms, and bleached skeletons were the only signs of the life that had once been there.

Source: tatoeba (2774604)

The stark contrast between, say, the success of the Republic of Korea and the wasteland of North Korea shows that central, planned control of the economy is a dead end.

Source: tatoeba (5774028)

The wasteland is not a hospitable place.

Source: tatoeba (9689169)

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