jungle 
jun·gle (juŋ′gəl)
noun
- land in a wet, tropical region, usually with large trees, dense underbrush, and a hot climate
- any confused, tangled growth, collection, etc.
- ☆ Slang a hobos' camp
- ☆ Slang a place or situation in which people engage in ruthless competition or in a struggle for survival
Etymology: Hindi jangal, desert forest, jungle < Sans jaṅgala, wasteland, desert
jungle
n.
Antonyms
Converse of subject
- surround: The suburbs of Calcutta at that time were surrounded by thick jungle.
Converse of object
- steam: My image of Africa, at that time, was of naked savages, cannibals, monkeys and tigers and steaming jungles.
- surround: This remarkable experience included an open-air hot rock bath in the dark in the surrounding jungle.
- explore: July 2001 Feeding the Celtic tiger Paul Walsh explores the Irish actuarial jungle where the tiger makes its home.
- fish: Kevin Wright had a good day when he fished the jungle with his brother Simon.
Adjective modifier
- steamy: Of those who took the gospel To those in foreign lands, To those in steamy jungles Or to torrid burning sands.
- impenetrable: To health insurance impenetrable jungle of cshcn enrolled at three components the.
- Amazonian: Plant houses must both exclude local weather and imitate foreign climates: arid deserts, Amazonian jungle, tundra, alpine meadow.
- dense: On my right, a monkey hangs atop the dense jungle, peering down with curiosity.
- Malayan: The play is set in the Malayan jungle in 1942.
- lush: Two women lie entwined on the fringes of a lush jungle.
Modifies a noun
- gym: He made his way in to the bushes then he jumped up in the jungle gym.
- warfare: The Training Team Brunei run jungle warfare courses for all members of the British Army.
- fowl: All of the world's 24 billion chickens are descended from the red jungle fowl.
- canopy: Darkness drops like a stone under the jungle canopy.
- safari: It's a great place to cool off after a jungle safari or to lounge by and sip an exotic cocktail in the evening.
- bashing: Others usually have no particular skills but soon learn the common tasks ranging from how to mix concrete to ' jungle bashing ' .
Noun used with modifier
- oldskool: This set was different to that of most Ratpack sets, as it was full on oldskool jungle from beginning to end.
- scrub: The ' Lion Rock ' is a citadel of unusual beauty rising 200 meters from the scrub jungle.
- mortgage: Trackers are a friendly face in the mortgage jungle, being simple in concept and easy to understand.
The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
The courts of Europe are a jungle, compared to which your jungles here are a well-kept garden.
Motor racing is dangerous; but what is danger? It is dangerous to climb a mountain. It is dangerous to cross main roads. It is dangerous to explore a jungle.One cannot frame regulations to make everything safe.
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?
Here, even the law of the jungle has broken down.
Now this is the Law of the Jungleöas old and as true as the sky; 471
A man-cub isa man-cub, and hemust learn all the Lawof the Jungle.
Mumbo-Jumbo is dead in the jungle.
New York is a jungle, they tell you.You could go further, and say that New York is a jungle. New York is a jungle. Beneath the columns of the old rain forest, made of melting macadam, the mean Limpopo of swamped Ninth Avenue bears an angry argosy of crocs and dragons, tiger fish, noise machines, sweating rainmakers.
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
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