Wilderness

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An unsettled, uncultivated region left in its natural condition, especially:
  • n. A large wild tract of land covered with dense vegetation or forests.
  • n. An extensive area, such as a desert or ocean, that is barren or empty; a waste.
  • n. A piece of land set aside to grow wild.
  • n. Something characterized by bewildering vastness, perilousness, or unchecked profusion: the wilderness of the city; the wilderness of counterespionage; a wilderness of voices.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An unsettled and uncultivated tract of land left in its natural state.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.
  • n. A disorderly or neglected place.
  • n. Quality or state of being wild; wildness.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A tract of land inhabited only by wild beasts; a desert, whether forest or plain.
  • n. A wild; a waste of any kind.
  • n. A part of a garden set apart for plants to grow in with unchecked luxuriance.
  • n. A confused or bewildering mass, heap, or collection.
  • n. Wildness.
  • n. Synonyms Wilderness, Desert. See desert.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
  • n. (politics) a state of disfavor
  • n. a bewildering profusion
  • n. a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    timberland    timber    woodland    forest    disfavor    disfavour    profuseness    profusion    cornucopia    richness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wild    waste    desert    wildness   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    desert    forest    valley    landscape    expanse    swamp    prairie    region    solitude    ocean