1. an area of land that is not used or cannot be used for growing crops or building on
2. a place or situation that is empty, boring, or without hope
Usage: figurative

Examples

• The nuclear accident turned the area into a wasteland.
• Nothing grows in this rocky wasteland.
• The abandoned factory sits in an industrial wasteland.
• After the drought, the farm became a wasteland.
• He described his job as a creative wasteland.
• The city center had become a cultural wasteland.
• They drove through miles of desert wasteland.