blightscape

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noun

A vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounblightscape (plural blightscapes)

plural blightscapes

  1. A vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.

    The film moves Barker's decaying British urban blightscape to an even grungier Chicago and the Cabrini-Green wasteland.

    1993, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, editors, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection, page lxxix
    2 more examples

    The cracked flagstone path leads to the only house in sight, a large, ramshackle tarpaper-shingled abomination straight out of an Appalachian blightscape.

    2008, Robert N. Chan, Zahirah Abdulah, Bad Memory, page 57

    We'd emerge from the subterranean station into Forty-second Street's urban blightscape: the tawdry glow of crumbling old theaters; noisy-clanging-beeping pinball arcades; greasy luncheonettes; and cheap-looking hookers.

    2009, Nelson George, City Kid, unnumbered page

Origin

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APA

blightscape. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blightscape

MLA

“blightscape.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blightscape. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blightscape,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blightscape.

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