Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wasteland

1 sense of wasteland

Sense 1
barren, waste, wasteland -- (an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert")
       => wilderness, wild -- (a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers")