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wilderness
Part of speech: NounA region uncultivated and uninhabited; a trackless forest; a desert or waste; an unarranged mass, as of flowers.
Usage examples "wilderness":- She was alone, but she was secure in the wilderness. - "Riders of the Silences", Max Brand.
- The gardener and his rose- trees are alike broken and stricken by the great storm which her movement has created; they lie helpless till the sand is swept over them and they are buried in a weary wilderness. - "Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold", Mabel Collins.
- I cross it in a boat, and am at once in a savage wilderness. - "Cord and Creese", James de Mille.