WILDERNESS

Pronunciation (US):

• WILDERNESS (noun)
  The noun WILDERNESS has 4 senses:

1. (politics) a state of disfavor
2. a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
3. a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
4. a bewildering profusion

  Familiarity information: WILDERNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

• WILDERNESS (noun)

Meaning:

(politics) a state of disfavor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness

Hypernyms ("wilderness" is a kind of...):

disfavor; disfavour (the state of being out of favor)

Domain category:

political relation; politics (social relations involving authority or power)

Meaning:

A wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)

Holonyms ("Wilderness" is a part of...):

Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)

Meaning:

A wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

wild; wilderness

Context example:

it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers

Hypernyms ("wilderness" is a kind of...):

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wilderness"):

barren; waste; wasteland (an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation)

bush (a large wilderness area)

frontier (a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country)

Meaning:

A bewildering profusion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context examples:

the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups / a wilderness of masts in the harbor

Hypernyms ("wilderness" is a kind of...):

cornucopia; profuseness; profusion; richness (the property of being extremely abundant)