WASTELAND Synonyms

• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• not bearing offspring

• completely wanting or lacking

• forsaken by owner or inhabitants

• unrestrained and uninhibited

• lacking sufficient water or rainfall

• lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere

• the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body)

• an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation

• the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children

• the quality of yielding nothing of value

• offering little or no hope

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• unpleasantly cold and damp

• (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment

• arid land with little or no vegetation

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

• leave behind

• withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility

• the act of giving something up

• the state of being decayed or destroyed

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere

• sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned

• an event that results in total destruction

• having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence

• the state of containing nothing

• having an empty stomach

• an empty area or space

• the quality of being valueless or futile

• unfavorable to life or growth

• not hospitable

• a state of no motion or movement

• not having life

• a state of social isolation

• the state or situation of being alone

• a solitary place

• without civilizing influences

• (of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops

• (of persons) lacking art or knowledge

• characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes

• with no people living there

• marked by extreme lack of restraint or control

• in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated

• a wild primitive state untouched by civilization

• a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition

• in an uncontrolled and rampant manner

• in a wild or undomesticated manner

• in a state of extreme emotion

• deviating widely from an intended course

• (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud

• without a basis in reason or fact

• talking or behaving irrationally

• involving risk or danger

• fanciful and unrealistic; foolish

• located in a dismal or remote area; desolate

• intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with

• without civilizing influences

• (of the elements) as if showing violent anger

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch