Thesaurus: wilderness
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.
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Definitions
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. A disorderly or neglected place.
- v. t. Quality or state of being wild; wildness.
- n. (politics) a state of disfavor
- n. a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- n. a bewildering profusion
- n:100 n. (politics) a state of disfavor n. a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War n. a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition n. a bewildering profusion