wilderness
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(politics) a state of disfavor
he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness
Types & categories
- disfavor hypernym
Related & opposite
- politics domain topic
Sense 2 noun
a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers
Types & categories
- geographical area hypernym
- barren hyponym
- bush hyponym
- frontier hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a bewildering profusion
the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups
Types & categories
- richness hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | politics |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | disfavor |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | waste |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | untamed |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | geographical area |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | barren |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | bush |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | frontier |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | richness |