wasteland

Definition

  • noun: land where nothing can grow or be built
  • noun: barren or uncultivated land

Examples

  • The outskirts of the city became a grim industrial 'wasteland'.

  • That part of the country is a cultural 'wasteland'.

  • the vast 'wasteland' of television

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Let them up!! Let them up!!! Let them up!!!! LET THEM UP!!!!! 'Where must we go... ...we who wander this wasteland in search of our better selves?' The First History Man (..)
    2015 Mad Max: Fury Road
  • (..) ...who runs from both the living AND the dead. Hunted by scavengers... Haunted by those I could not protect. So I exist in this wasteland... A man, reduced to a single instinct: Survive. Blood group -O, high octane. Universal donor. (..)
    2015 Mad Max: Fury Road