- 1. 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. Source: opted
- 2. v. t. A disorderly or neglected place. Source: opted
- 3. v. t. Quality or state of being wild; wildness. Source: opted
- 4. n. (politics) a state of disfavor Source: wordnet
- 5. n. a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition Source: wordnet
- 6. n. a bewildering profusion Source: wordnet
- 7. 1. 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. The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply. Waller. 2. A disorderly or neglected place. Cowper. 3. Quality or state of being wild; wildness. [Obs.] These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands. Will keep from wilderness with ease. Milton. Source: webster
- 8. 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 Source: ecdict
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