wilderedadj.
/ˈwɪldəd/, U.S. /ˈwɪldərd/ 1.
a. That has lost one's way; straying, ‘lost’.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [adjective] > having missed the way > lost or having lost direction
wiltc1440
lost1526
wildered1656
bewildered1685
bushed1885
disoriented1957
1656 in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1704) III. xv 491 Like poor wilder'd Travellers, perceiving that We have lost our way.
1745 E. Young Consolation 84 Ye, who guide the Wilder'd in the Waves.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 115 The wilder'd stranger.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 46 A sound as of a wildered wind, Half moan, half sigh.
b. figurative. At a loss, perplexed, bewildered.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [adjective]
yblenta1225
amazed?c1225
wory?c1225
mingedc1275
willc1300
distracta1340
confounded1362
confuse1362
distraitc1374
whapedc1374
wilsomea1375
poseletc1390
distraught1393
perplexa1425
wildc1440
wiltc1440
dodemusydc1450
mistedc1450
unclearc1475
mazed1493
perplexeda1500
traversablea1500
mazyc1525
entangled1561
muddy?1571
distraughted1572
moidered1587
wondering1592
puzzled1598
plundered1601
distracted1604
uncollected1613
wildered1642
turbid1647
tosticated1650
fuddled1656
pixie-led1659
puzzling1692
bumbazed1720
maffled1820
obfuscated1822
confused1825
muddly1829
mystified1833
maze1842
obfusticatedc1844
head-scratching1849
clueless1862
flustery1862
befogged1868
deurmekaar1871
mosy1887
skewgee1890
buggered-up1893
confusticated1898
smock-ravelled1904
messed-up1913
screwed-up1943
hung up1945
lost1967
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1642 D. Rogers Naaman 149 See Naaman here, in what a wildred case he is!
1689 J. O. tr. Cowley Hist. Plants i. Scurvy Grass 31 Nor does it to your wilder'd Sense appear, Where their Pain is, 'cause it is every where.
1789 W. Blake Dream in Songs of Innocence Troubled wilderd and forlorn.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby iv. 197 In secret, doubtless, to pursue The schemes his wildered fancy drew.
1881 R. Kipling Simla Dancers in Departm. Ditties iv And murmurs of past merriment pursue Your 'wildered clerks that they indite in vain.
2.
a. Of a place or region: In which one may lose one's way; pathless, wild.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective]
westeeOE
wildc893
wastyc1230
wastec1290
untilled1297
void1398
wilsomea1400
desolate1413
wastablea1450
unlaboured1474
untilthed1495
spare1508
unmanured1541
unculted1548
uncultured1555
Hyrcan1567
untoiled1578
manureless1595
griggy1597
Wealdish1598
Hyrcanian1600
unwrought1600
wealy1601
uncultived1605
incult1624
unmanaged1634
incultivateda1657
uncultivate1659
uncultivated1684
unreclaimed1753
wildered1810
irreclaimed1814
natural1827
feral1882
1810 P. B. Shelley Posthumous Fragm. M. Nicholson 26 Our ghosts, whilst raves the maddened storm, Will sweep at midnight o'er the wildered wave.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 203 Brushing through the wilder'd dell.
1860 C. Patmore Faithful for Ever i. i A long, green slip of wilder'd land.
b. Confused, disordered; mingled confusedly.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective]
confusec1384
yblent1426
intermellé1487
farraginary1538
puddled1559
confused1576
promiscuous1579
pell-mell1584
ravelleda1586
mingle-mangle1589
rumblingc1598
skimble-skamble1598
huddle1601
plundered1601
promiscual1602
jumbled1611
promiscous1656
bedevilled1755
helter-skelter1785
muddly1829
hugger-mugger1840
wildered1853
pied1870
deurmekaar1871
mixed-up1888
screwed-up1942
snafu1942
scrambled1951
untogether1969
1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xliii. 331 Certain feelings..when reviewed, must strike us as things wildered and whirling.
1909 S. A. Brooke in Life & Lett. (1917) II. 613 The sun set among the trees in a wildered glory of gold and crimson.
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