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blightscape

blightscape noun: a vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.

Noun

blightscape (plural blightscapes)

  1. A vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.
    • The film moves Barker's decaying British urban blightscape to an even grungier Chicago and the Cabrini-Green wasteland.1993, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, editors, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection, page lxxix
    • The cracked flagstone path leads to the only house in sight, a large, ramshackle tarpaper-shingled abomination straight out of an Appalachian blightscape.2008, Robert N. Chan, Zahirah Abdulah, Bad Memory, page 57

Forms of blightscape

pluralblightscapes

Origin of blightscape

From blight + -scape.

Questions about blightscape

What does blightscape mean?
Blightscape means a vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.
What part of speech is blightscape?
Blightscape is a noun.
What is the plural of blightscape?
The plural of blightscape is blightscapes.

Words near blightscape in the dictionary

  1. blighties
  2. blighting
  3. blightingly
  4. blightings
  5. blights
  6. blightscape
  7. blightscapes
  8. blighty
  9. Blighty bag
  10. Blighty bags
  11. Blighty one

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