wilderness

Definition

  • noun: a wild and natural area in which few people live
  • noun: a tract or region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: wild, waste, desert

Examples

  • They liked to take 'wilderness' excursions.

  • She enjoys hikes through the 'wilderness'.

  • a bureaucratic 'wilderness'

Movie quotes

  • (..) my mother raised. It took me four years, seven months and three days to do it. Without her. After I lost myself in the wilderness of my grief, I found my way out of the woods. And I didn't even know where I was going until I got there on the last day of my hike. Thank you, I thought (..)
    2014 Wild