waste land

Noun

wasteland (plural wastelands)

1. A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
   • Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.
2. Any barren or uninteresting place.
   • After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.
3. A devastated, uninhabitable area.
   • Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach...1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703
4. Unused land.
   • Azaz and Ray were nominated individually for what, at first glance, looked like a project to transform wasteland at South Tottenham station into a community garden.2023 September 20, “National Rail Awards 2023”, in RAIL, page 82