jungly
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6.7
- adjective
- /ˈjʌŋɡli/
- We embarked on a trek through a jungly area filled with exotic plants and dense foliage.
Examples
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My grandfather once got a historical marker installed in a jungly graveyard in East Texas, where some of our relatives were buried.
Academic text (2004) -
Andy lived in a ramshackle eight-unit building, overgrown with jungly shrubs and painted the color of blood oranges.
Fiction book (1993) -
A mass of jungly red and tropical green
Fiction book (2000) -
It's like so Jungly right here we have on sandals.
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I was aiming for a jungly malaise.
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While she tells me about her hopes for the future, the sun abandons our forest to its jungly darkness.
Fiction book (2001) -
This jungly garden of old Edison's is a devilish place.
Fiction book (1990) -
As if in a limousine, they cruised out of their jungly yard and around the picket fence to Chato's place.
Fiction book (1999) -
Out of sympathy for the people, Mason insisted on Pacot, but as it turned out, he grew to like the place, the jungly yards and wild creep of urban undergrowth, the crumbling gingerbread houses and cobbled streets.
Fiction book (2000) -
The explorers navigated through the jungly terrain, surrounded by towering trees and thick vines.
Synonyms
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2.4
An area with many trees growing on it
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2.3
An area covered with many trees
3
2.0
Having many trees like a small forest
1
6.8
Covered with thick plants and small trees like a wild forest
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4.2
Covered with many trees
1
3.5
Like a forest with many trees and plants
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Etymology
The word jungly comes from jungle, which itself comes from the Hindi word 'jangal' meaning 'forest', and the ending -y turns it into 'like a jungle'. So jungly describes land or plants that are thick, wild, and overgrown, just as in a jungle.