Wilderness
['wɪldənɪs] or ['wɪldɚnəs]
Definition
(noun.) a bewildering profusion; 'the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups'; 'a wilderness of masts in the harbor'.
(noun.) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; 'it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers'.
(noun.) a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War.
(noun.) (politics) a state of disfavor; 'he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness'.
Typist: Rudy--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wild, desert, waste.
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Examples
- He has been something of a voice crying in the wilderness, but a voice that did not understand its own message. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Leave this wilderness, it was said to me, and go out hence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He puts his trust in a snow-cloud; the wilderness, the wind, and the hail-storm are his refuge; his allies are the elements--air, fire, water. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Our losses in the Wilderness were very severe. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut against the sky, and how richly their shadows fell upon its snowy roof! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- From there to Fredericksburg he had the use of the two roads above described running nearly parallel to the Wilderness. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In fancy we shall see Milan again, and her stately Cathedral with its marble wilderness of graceful spires. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Warren followed Wilson and reached the Wilderness Tavern by noon, took position there and intrenched. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For the balance of the day and all the following night we raced across that ochre wilderness with the pursuers at our back ever gaining upon us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- As a consequence, the wilderness blossoms as a rose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In fact, nowhere after the battle of the Wilderness did Lee show any disposition to leave his defences far behind him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She was a child again--and had wandered back through a forty years' wilderness to her convent garden. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She spoke quietly and looked at the wilderness of sand and mist with steady, thoughtful eyes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- With as much ease as I was told to go into this wilderness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Rocky wildernesses and barren fields suddenly became Eldorados. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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