Wilder vs Wilderness - What's the difference?
wilder | wilderness |
To bewilder, perplex
* 1922 XXIV, lines 29-30
*{{quote-book, year=1913, author=Smyrnaeus Quintus, title=The Fall of Troy, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Now in their hearts those wildered Trojans said That once more they beheld Achilles' self Gigantic in his armour. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1879, author=Emma Lazarus, title=The Poems of Emma Lazarus, chapter=, edition=
, passage=More tender, grateful than she could have dreamed, Fond hands passed pitying over brows and hair, And gentle words borne softly through the air, Calming her weary sense and wildered mind, By welcome, dear communion with her kind. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1854, author=Effie Afton, title=Eventide, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Deep and far within the ether stretched my eyes their anxious gaze, While the swelling thoughts within me grew a wild and wildered maze, Then came floating on the distance, softly to my listening ears, Low, thrilling harmonies of worlds whirling in their bright spheres. }}
(wild)
An unsettled and uncultivated tract of land left in its natural state.
As a verb wilder
is to bewilder, perplex.As an adjective wilder
is comparative of wild.As a proper noun Wilder
is {{surname|lang=en}.As a noun wilderness is
an unsettled and uncultivated tract of land left in its natural state.wilder
English
Verb
(en verb)- Now, to smother noise and light,
- Is stolen abroad the wildering night,
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