Dictionary Entry
wilderness
wilderness is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
A disorderly or neglected place.
- 3transitive verb
Quality or state of being wild; wildness.
- 4noun
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"
- 5noun
a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
"it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"
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- 6noun
a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
- 7noun
(politics) a state of disfavor
"he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness"
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