waste land
Desolate empty region
Waste land is ground that lies uncultivated, barren, or abandoned—land that produces nothing useful.
It may be naturally inhospitable or neglected through human disuse: The factory left behind acres of industrial waste land.
The term appears in property law for land unfit for development.
T.S.
Eliot's 1922 poem made The Waste Land a symbol of spiritual desolation.
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- barrenUnable to produce
- moorlandOpen uncultivated upland
- badlandsArid, heavily eroded terrain
- ghost townDeserted former inhabited place
steppe · infertile · desertification · dead zone · nuclear fallout · tundra · degradation · alienation · urban decay · symbolism · dystopia · T.S. Eliot · ruin · deadzone · erosion · modernism · semi-desert · existentialism
waste landfarmland
Agricultural terrain
arable land · fertile land · cropland · agricultural land · plantation
waste landrainforest
Wet tropical woodland ecosystem
woodland · wetland · oasis · fertile ground · fertile valley
waste landprime real estate
Highly sought-after land
commercial district · urban center · built-up area · industrial zone · industrial park