Synonyms for wilderness
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
Related words
- Word family
- wildness
Forms
- Plural
- wildernesses → bushlands, wastenesses, wastnesses, wilds…
Example sentences
- wilds They filmed the documentary in the wilds of Algeria.
- desert The wreckage of the plane was found in the desert.
- jungle Sami and Layla camped in the middle of the jungle.
- solitude He likes to spend some time in solitude every day.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| wilderness | falling | |
| wilds | rising | |
| desert | rising | |
| jungle | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- wild1
- 5 letters
- waste1, wilds1
- 6 letters
- desert2, jungle2
- 8 letters
- solitude3, bushland, wastness
- 9 letters
- wasteness, anecumene
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (desert2 = 2 syllables).