Synonyms for wilderness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wil-der-nis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɪl dər nɪs |
Top 10 synonyms for wilderness Other synonyms for the word wilderness
Définition of wilderness
Origin :- c.1200, from Old English wildeoren "wild, savage," from wildern (adj.) "wild, savage" (from wilde "wild;" see wild (adj.) + deor "animal;" see deer) + -ness. Cf. Dutch wildernis, German Wildernis, though the usual form is Wildnis.
- noun forest
- "You have wandered long in the wilderness," continued the minister.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- Fretted by the pain, he plunged into the wilderness to hide like a wounded deer.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- And, in spite of these disturbances, business goes on briskly in the market of the wilderness.
- Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- And Albany was then almost as much in the wilderness as Caughnawaga.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- I thought that in the wilderness one heard always the night-yelping of the wolves.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- The wilderness stretched its dark shadows to our very thresholds.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- After this, the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
- Who comes hither, among the beasts and dangers of the wilderness?
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Nay, that foot has no fellow in the wilderness; it will betray her.
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
Antonyms for wilderness
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