BADLANDS: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for BADLANDS?

Need another word that means the same as “badlands”? Find 4 synonyms for “badlands” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Badlands” are: bad lands, wilds, wastes, uninhabited region

Badlands as a Noun

Definitions of "Badlands" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “badlands” as a noun can have the following definitions:

  • Deeply eroded barren land.
  • Extensive tracts of heavily eroded, uncultivable land with little vegetation.
  • An eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska.
  • A barren plateau region of the western US, mainly in North and South Dakota and Nebraska.

Synonyms of "Badlands" as a noun (4 Words)

bad landsThat which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency.
uninhabited regionA part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve.
wastes(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect.
The trackless wastes of the desert.
wildsA wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition.
He lived in the wild.

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