Home › Words › B › blightscapeblightscapeblightscape means A vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, blightscape ranks #10,422 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom blight + -scape.nounA vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.e.g.“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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.shitscape 65% match — An ugly or unpleasant landscape. vs blightscape →hellscape 61% match — A hellish landscape. vs blightscape →blighting 60% match — Damned; pesky. vs blightscape →bloodscape 59% match — A scene of carnage and devastation. vs blightscape →blightedly 59% match — In a blighted manner. vs blightscape →blandscape 58% match — A bland-looking landscape. vs blightscape →wasteground 57% match — A barren stretch of ground; wasteland. vs blightscape →desight 57% match — An unsightly object; an eyesore vs blightscape →