Lush and Waste

Lush

Lush adjective - Covered with a thick healthy natural growth.

Waste is an antonym for lush.

Waste

Waste adjective - Producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation.
Usage example: waste acreage that was not fit for anything

Lush is an antonym for waste.

Both words in one sentence

  • Gaia's Lament Star Fox 64: The planet Zoness was once beautiful and lush, and served as a vacation spot, but later became a waste dump thanks to Andross's experiments.
    Source: Gaia's Lament
  • Literature / The Exiles After the End: The Waste War turned lush farmland into The Waste, ended civilization as it was known, and introduced an extremely high rate of mutations into the population.
  • Video Game / Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Then find out the local wildlife was possessed by an army of those evil creatures, and that they've nearly driven the planets race, the Luminoth, to extinction, having already laid waste to the once lush world, and are nearly close to completely destroying the entire planet altogether.
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