wilderness
Meaning of wilderness
noun
an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region.
Old English wildēornes ‘land inhabited only by wild animals’, from wild dēor ‘wild deer’ + -ness.
Information about wilderness
- It is a name.
- Languages in which wilderness is used:
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Hyphenation of wilderness
wilder-ness
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- wilderness is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
wilderness synonyms
Meaning Wilderness:
Meaning wild:
Meaning a remote uninhabited or sparsely inhabited area:
Meaning a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land:
Meaning extensive tracts of heavily eroded, uncultivable land with little vegetation:
Meaning an area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics:
Meaning abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous:
Meaning (in South Africa and Zimbabwe) the wilds; a distant or wilderness region:
Words that rhyme with wilderness
Ness, ness, Brahmaness, Hovhaness, Puritaness, Samaritaness, Titaness, aldermaness, deaness, gigmaness, guardianess, librarianess, maness, nonhumaness, nonopinionaness, overlaness, overraness, physicianess, semihaness, shamaness, sultaness, superaveraness, thaness, titaness, tragedianess, veteraness, villianess, yeomaness, drabness, dumbness, glibness, nonadaptabness, nonapplicabness, nonapproachabness, nondefeasibness, nonedibness, nonextensibness, nonimpressionabness, noninfusibness, noninheritabness, nonmalleabness, nonmarriageabness, nonresolvabness, numbness, plumbness, redistillabness, reusabness, reuseabness, sibness, slabness