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adjective
- 1. characterized by jungle or resembling a jungle: "a wet, jungly island"
- 2. characteristic of jungle dance music: "jungly drum 'n' bass sounds"
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JUNGLY definition: resembling or suggesting a jungle | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples.
1. a. : an impenetrable thicket or tangled mass of tropical vegetation. b. : a tract overgrown with thickets or masses of vegetation. 2. a (1) : a confused or disordered mass of objects : jumble. (2) : something that baffles or frustrates by its tangled or complex character : maze. the jungle of housing laws Bernard Taper. b.
Jungly definition: resembling or suggesting a jungle. . See examples of JUNGLY used in a sentence.
n. 1. Land covered with a dense growth of tropical vegetation. 2. A dense thicket or growth. 3. A dense, confused mass; a jumble. 4. Something made up of many confused elements; a bewildering complex or maze: sorting through the jungle of regulations.
an uncontrolled or confusing mass of things: Our garden is a real jungle. a jungle of electronic equipment. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. jungle noun (SITUATION) [ S ] informal. a situation in which it is difficult to succeed because a lot of people are competing against each other:
Jul 1, 2024 · jungly. Definitions of jungly. adjective. overgrown with tropical vegetation. synonyms: wooded. covered with growing trees and bushes etc.
Jungly refers to any environment, place or situation that resembles, has qualities of, or is characteristic of a jungle. This could pertain to the physical appearance - dense, overgrown, filled with wild plants or animals, or a metaphorical sense - chaotic, difficult to navigate, wild, or lawless.
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective jungly. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
JUNGLY definition: resembling or suggesting a jungle | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples in American English
jungly ( comparative junglier, superlative jungliest) Overgrown with jungle . Categories: English terms suffixed with -y. English lemmas. English adjectives. English terms with quotations.