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wilderness - 11 thesaurus results
Main Entry: wilderness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: forest
Synonyms: back country, badland, barrens, boondocks, boonies, bush, desert, forest, hinterland, jungle, no-man's land, outback, primeval forest, sticks, waste, wasteland, wild, wilds
Antonyms: city, metropolis
Main Entry: wilderness/wilds
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uninhabited area
Synonyms: back country, boondocks, bush, desert, forest, hinterland, jungle, outback, waste, wasteland, wild, back of beyond, badland, barrens, middle of nowhere, primeval forest, sticks
Antonyms: city, metropolis
Main Entry: bush
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shrubs; woodland
Synonyms: backcountry, backwoods, bramble, brush, creeper, forest, hedge, hinterland, jungle, outback, plant, scrub, shrubbery, thicket, vine, wilderness, boscage, briar, chaparral, scrubland, the wild
Notes: bush and shrub are used interchangeably for relatively low woody perennials with many stems and branches that grow from a complex close to the ground; a tree is a woody perennial, usually taller, with branches starting higher up
Main Entry: desert
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wasteland; dry area
Synonyms: barren, solitude, wild, wilderness, Sahara, arid region, badland, barren land, flats, lava bed, sand dunes, wilds
Antonyms: wetland
Main Entry: expanse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: large space, usually open
Synonyms: area, belt, breadth, compass, distance, domain, extension, extent, field, immensity, latitude, length, margin, orbit, plain, radius, range, reach, region, room, scope, span, sphere, spread, stretch, sweep, territory, tract, width, wilderness, amplitude, remoteness, uninterrupted space
Main Entry: hinterland
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: backcountry
Synonyms: boondocks*, brush, frontier, outback, wasteland, wilderness, woods, boonies, borderland, bush country, sticks
Main Entry: solitude
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: aloneness
Synonyms: confinement, desert, detachment, emptiness, isolation, loneliness, privacy, quarantine, seclusion, silence, waste, wasteland, wilderness, withdrawal, loneness, lonesomeness, peace and quiet, reclusiveness, retirement, separateness, solitariness
Antonyms: companionship, friendship, togetherness
Main Entry: back country
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: undeveloped rural area
Synonyms: back o' beyond, back of beyond, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, godforsaken place, hinterland, outback, the boonies, the sticks, wilderness
Main Entry: country
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: rural area; area away from city
Synonyms: back country, backwoods, boondocks*, bush, countryside, hinterland, outback, outdoors, province, wilderness, woods, boonies, cow country, farmland, farms, forests, green belt, middle of nowhere, sticks, up country, wide open space, wilds, woodlands
Antonyms: city, metropolis, urbanity
Main Entry: waste
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: land that is uncultivated
Synonyms: barren, bog, brush, bush, desert, fen, jungle, marsh, moor, quagmire, solitude, swamp, tundra, void, wasteland, wild, wilderness, badlands, brushland, dust bowl, marshland, wilds
Antonyms: development
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