Plain and Wasteland

Plain

Plain noun - A broad area of level or rolling treeless country.

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Wasteland and plain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wasteland" instead a noun "Plain".

Nearby Words: plainly, plainness, plaint

Wasteland noun - Land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops.

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Plain and wasteland are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Plain" instead a noun "Wasteland".

Nearby Word: waste

burning	burning plain	burning wasteland
full	full plain	full wasteland
endless	endless plain	endless wasteland
dead	dead plain	dead wasteland
Other adjectives: open, empty, entire, dry, large, big, huge, flat, hellish, dark, desolate, cold, barren, peaceful, foggy, grey, dusty, vast, blasted, snowy, red, sandy, featureless, volcanic.

An entire plain of grey, dreary darkness, only lightened up by the constant lightning strikes that make it such an unhospitable wasteland.

Source: Bleak Level
Old Man Logan: the Red Skull rules the world, all the heroes are either dead, in hiding, given up or just plain corrupt (The Hulk has become the vile patriarch of a sizeable clan of inbred cannibalistic deformed hick offspring), and the world is pretty much a Post Apocalyptic wasteland.

Source: Bad Future
The Plain is a vast wasteland that is home to wind-whales, flying mantas, walking trees, talking stones (called "menhir"), coral reefs (despite being a desert), and "change storms" that temporarily distort reality.

Source: Eldritch Location

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