| Main Entry: | badlands |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | barren land |
Synonyms: |
barren, barrens, desert, waste, wasteland |
| Main Entry: | desert |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wasteland; dry area |
Synonyms: |
Sahara, arid region, badland, barren, barren land, flats, lava bed, sand dunes, solitude, wild, wilderness, wilds |
| Notes: | that impoverished stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's'; that rich gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in two of them |
Antonyms: |
wetland |
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | land that is uncultivated |
Synonyms: |
badlands, barren, bog, brush, brushland, bush, desert, dust bowl, fen, jungle, marsh, marshland, moor, quagmire, solitude, swamp, tundra, void, wasteland, wild, wilderness, wilds |
Antonyms: |
development |
| Main Entry: | wilderness/wilds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uninhabited area |
Synonyms: |
back country, back of beyond, badland, barrens, boondocks, bush, desert, forest, hinterland, jungle, middle of nowhere, outback, primeval forest, sticks, waste, wasteland, wild |
Antonyms: |
city, metropolis |
| Main Entry: | salt flat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expanse of salt remains |
Synonyms: |
Death Valley, alkali flat, badlands, salt marsh |
| Main Entry: | wilderness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forest |
Synonyms: |
back country, badland, barrens, boondocks, boonies, bush, desert, forest, hinterland, jungle, no-man's land, outback, primeval forest, sticks, waste, wasteland, wild, wilds |
Antonyms: |
city, metropolis |
| Main Entry: | wasteland |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wilderness |
Synonyms: |
badlands, desert, marsh, moor, swamp, wilds |
| Concept: | Waste. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion; ebb; leakage (exudation); loss; wear and tear; waste; prodigality; misuse; wasting; rubbish (useless)., mountain in labor.
-verbs
spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse., cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander., "waste its sweetness on the desert air " [Gray]; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a weel; labor in vain (useless); cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve., leak (run out); run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.
-adjectives
wasted; at a low ebb., wasteful (prodigal); penny wise and pound foolish.
-phrases
magno conatu magnas nugas; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle; "idly busy rolls their world away" [Goldsmith].
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