[ UK /wˈɪldənəs/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪɫdɝnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a bewildering profusion
    the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups
    a wilderness of masts in the harbor
  2. (politics) a state of disfavor
    he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness
  3. a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
    it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers
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How To Use wilderness In A Sentence

  • But I now understand how fragile its mighty wilderness really is.
  • The news orgs, by contrast, are doing this out of laziness and a hopeless addiction to portraying lefties as a kind of perennially-disappointed lost tribe who will never, ever find their way out of the wilderness. News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't
  • What wilderness areas and national parks need is branded lodges and holiday homes that offer a guarantee of quality. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kislev is a land of dark pine forests, snow-clad wilderness and wind-swept steppes.
  • Not far short of the Oregon border, I stopped for a beer at a tiny townlet in a wilderness of sage that had a post office, a tavern and not much else.
  • The local landowners and crofters have countered with an alternative proposal for a Wester Ross Wilderness Area.
  • The word has reasserted the romantic, courageous quality that the poet Keats, in “Endymion,” gave it: “Adventuresome, I send/My herald thought into a wilderness.” No Uncertain Terms
  • A hairless philosopher who lives in the wilderness, meditates and kills people.
  • The Upper Peninsula, which is 90 percent forested, retains its aura of accessible wilderness. Pure Michigan Travel
  • It had been 40 years since the company closed the railway, but now there was again an echo in the wilderness, as the whistle blew once more.
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