Synonyms:
wilderness
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
wilderness, wild
Meaning: a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"
Synonyms:
Wilderness
Meaning: a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
Synonyms:
wilderness
Meaning: (politics) a state of disfavor; "he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness"
Usage examples
THE WILDERNESS ENVIRONMENT.
The Indian boy was a prince of the wilderness.
Moses was for a long time a shepherd in the wilderness.
We have tamed a wilderness; we have spanned a continent.
The moon had sunk into the Libyan wilderness; the eastern sky was red.
"Yes, sir," replied the boy, "I came chiefly by the river and the Wilderness Road."
Even the fields were no longer cultivated and the country began to resemble a wilderness.
The sun was just beginning to show itself above the wilderness when the hunters left camp.
Polly, mark my words--in three years from this, Hawkeye'll be a howling wilderness. You'll see.
The peasantry, who inhabit the wilderness beyond, say that I am mad. That is because I will have nothing to do with them.