badlands
/ˈbæd.lændz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
noun
An arid region of Western Canada characterized by significant erosion and odd land formations containing dinosaur and other fossils.
name
Badlands National Park, a national park in South Dakota.
Example Sentences
- "Not only do the Bad Lands present a most attractive field to the student of erosion and of the origin of earth forms, but their deathlike solitudes have been made to yield the most wonderful procession of strange extinct animals yet unearthed by geologists."
- "No one has ever described better the shaggy badlands and cabbage-patches round the edges of a city, where the debris of civilization piles up ramshackle suburbs in which starve and scheme all manner of human detritus."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: Makȟóšiča