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/ˈbæd.lændz/ · noun
(geomorphology) An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks..
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.
Use bad lands when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bad lands means (geomorphology) An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks..
Common synonyms include malpais, bad lands.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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