Show me
of
Looking for synonyms for "jungle"? Browse alternatives ranked by relevance — sharper word choices for fiction, poetry, and copywriting.
(n)
A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.
Relevance: 0%
A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.
(uncountable) The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes.
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
(loosely) Land covered with woody vegetation.
The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
A tangled twisted mass.
A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
(chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
(countable, derogatory) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
(figuratively) An aggressively defiant person.
A mixture of often unrelated things.
a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
(slang, uncountable) Sex outside of one's current relationship.
(adj)
Better.
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Peru. Capital and largest city: Lima.
No particular place, noplace.
A surname.
wilderness
The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).
(chiefly Australia) An area of land in a natural, uncultivated state; wilderness, open forest.
A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
(US) A region of shrubs, typically dry in the summer and rainy in the winter. The coast of the Mediterranean is such a region.
(British India) A forested region located in the present-day Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand.
Clothing to be worn in a jungle.
jungle music or its subculture
A vented combat boot designed for use in hot, wet and humid environments.
Alternative form of Jungle Terry. [(British India) A forested region located in the present-day Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand.]
(slang) An improvised mix of liquor, often with fruit juices, usually served for group consumption.
(idiomatic) A gossip network; an informal communication system within a group or organization.
An informal network of news and gossip; the grapevine.
Several music genres, including:
(slang, derogatory) Attraction of a person of non-African descent towards people of African descent.
(US, Israel) A play structure designed for children to climb on, traditionally constructed as a frame of metal bars as introduced in 1920.
A blackwater-flooded Amazonian forest.
(South Africa) A wilderness region, away from cities.
A row of bars, found on playgrounds, under which one hangs by the arms and crosses by brachiation (swinging between bars, legs dangling down).
Alternative form of igapó. [A blackwater-flooded Amazonian forest.]
A boisterous or lavish celebration or party.
A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.
Archaic form of jambul. [An evergreen tropical tree, Syzygium cumini.]
(agriculture) A tribal form of cultivation in India, where a chosen piece of land is cleared and used to grow crops until its fertility is depleted.
Alternative spelling of jumbie. [(chiefly Caribbean) A ghost or evil spirit.]
A watercourse in the Amazon rainforest.
A seasonal swamp in East Africa.
A kind of seasonal shallow wetland in parts of Africa.
(Caribbean) A simple bamboo hut.
(informal) The British-made Number 5 SMLE rifle, with a shortened barrel suitable for jungle warfare.
(UK, slang) A member or fan of Heart of Midlothian F.C., a Scottish football club.
A type of open, hilly grassland, especially in Sri Lanka, often formed after the clearing of jungle.
Synonym of jambul.
The practice of juju.
(India, historical) A screen or latticework, generally of bamboo, used for various purposes, such as a fence or a support for climbing plants.
Pronunciation spelling of jewel. [A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.]
The coarse, strong fibre of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc.
Alternative form of jamun. [Synonym of jambul.]
A region in southwestern Guyana, bordering the Brazilian Amazon.
Alternative form of munja (“type of grass”). [The Indian grass Tripidium bengalense.]
(organic chemistry, archaic) A bitter alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of Jamaica and Suriname.
(India, agriculture) The practice of cutting down and burning the vegetation from an area of forest in order to create farmable land.
Alternative form of igarapé. [A watercourse in the Amazon rainforest.]
Obsolete form of jaborandi. [Any of several species of the genus Pilocarpus of plants, some of which are important medicinally.]
A kind of safety platform in a tree, used when hunting large animals or to escape a flood; found most commonly in Indian jungles.
(fantasy) An Afrocentric subgenre of fantasy fiction that draws on African spiritualities and cosmologies.
A remote settlement in inland Brazil originally founded by fugitive slaves or their descendants.
Alternative form of yacare. [A caiman; a kind of alligator.]
(usually capitalized, in place names) A lake (in Africa).
(dated, derogatory, offensive) The Third World countries, especially those in Africa.
Alternative spelling of juju. [(countable) A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers.]
(sports) A feint.
(childish) Of, or relating to bananas, or their flavour.
Name of an immortal sloth-bear (or sometimes a monkey) in Hindu mythology, often stylized as "king of the bears".