disapproval If you refer to a place, situation, or period in time as a wasteland, you are criticizing it because you think there is nothing interesting or exciting in it. the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule = desert
1 (With "The"), A classic American poem of the early 20th Century by Thomas Stearns Eliot 2 A property which cannot be developed for profitable use
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
A wasteland is an area of land on which not much can grow or which has been spoiled in some way. The pollution has already turned vast areas into a wasteland
wasteland
Hyphenation
waste·land
Turkish pronunciation
weystländ
Pronunciation
/ˈwāstˌland/ /ˈweɪstˌlænd/
Etymology
[ 'wAst-"land also -l& ] (noun.) 14th century. waste + land