Rural
Rural adjective - Of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people.
Wilderness and rural are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wilderness" instead a noun "Rural".
Nearby Word: rurally
Wilderness
Wilderness noun - A wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War.
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Rural and wilderness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rural" instead a noun "Wilderness".
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Alternately, the trope will be subverted, introducing the audience to a seemingly endless city, and only later revealing that there are, in fact, vast areas of truly rural or wilderness areas remaining, the locals just don't like to talk about it.
Source: City Planet - This clan or extended family lives in a rural or wilderness area, away from civil authorities, and makes a living by either robbing passers-by or traveling to raid farms, manors and villages.
Source: Bandit Clan - Doxiadis suggests the Earth's fate is to a mild version of this, with rural and wilderness areas reduced to islands between the interconnecting "bridges" and "nodes" of a single city.
Source: City Planet
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Wilderness or Rural. 2016. Accessed August 10, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/rural/wilderness.
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