wilderness
noun
Origin of wilderness
Synonym study
Wilderness
noun
Related Words for wilderness
outback, jungle, wasteland, desert, forest, boondocks, bush, hinterland, wild, waste, barrens, booniesExamples from the Web for wilderness
Contemporary Examples of wilderness
They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.
The original metaphor was: erect a wall to keep the garden of the church free from the wilderness of politics.
Hold the Dark is set in the Alaskan wilderness, in an isolated village at the lip of the tundra.
Compliments Are Nice, but Enough With the Cormac McCarthy ComparisonsWilliam Giraldi
October 21, 2014
I went back while Lorne [Michaels] was on his 5-year jaunt in the wilderness, and Ebersol was producing.
Harry Shearer on Being Nixon, ‘The Simpsons Movie’ Sequel, and Why Obama Should Return His NobelMarlow Stern
October 21, 2014
In short, the wilderness skills and outdoor abilities that the founding mothers intended.
Historical Examples of wilderness
"You have wandered long in the wilderness," continued the minister.
Fretted by the pain, he plunged into the wilderness to hide like a wounded deer.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
And, in spite of these disturbances, business goes on briskly in the market of the wilderness.
Old NewsNathaniel Hawthorne
And Albany was then almost as much in the wilderness as Caughnawaga.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
I thought that in the wilderness one heard always the night-yelping of the wolves.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic