Outback

Quick meaning: Outback is a noun meaning (Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.

Meaning

(Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.

More Meanings

1. Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.
2. To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.
3. To travel or stay in the outback

Example Sentences

In the outback, many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches.

In the Northern Territory, arguably the most outback of Australian states, police are still not armed.

The outback′s rich, red soil looked like blood because of all the iron in it, and the vast land was so still and barren that it seemed lifeless.

Barely a bird and definitely none of my target species greeted the morning so I cut my losses and headed north through the staggeringly vast emptiness of the Outback.

Word Forms

• outbacks
• outbacking
• outbacked

Synonyms for outback

Depending on context, synonyms include remote, backwoods.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include backwoods, remote, inaccessible, unaccessible, bush, hinterland.

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