jungle

Plural: jungles

Noun

• An area of dense tropical forest; a wild, untamed place.
• a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
• a place where hoboes camp
• an impenetrable equatorial forest
• A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
• Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
• A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
• A tangled mess.
• An area where hobos camp together.
• A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
• Dense rough.
• A dense mass of pubic hair.

Adj

• resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.

Examples

• It’s a jungle out there.
• Navigating the Scrabble board felt like exploring a dense, letter-filled jungle.

Synonyms

hobo camp, tiger country

Related Words

rainforest, JUNGLED