Meaning & use
Jungly
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Resembling a jungle; densely overgrown, tangled, or wild in appearance.
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The abandoned garden had become jungly, with vines swallowing the old fence.
They hiked through a jungly ravine thick with ferns and creepers.
A note on using this word
An informal coinage from 'jungle,' popularized partly through colonial-era travel writing and adventure fiction such as Kipling's stories.
Words with a similar meaning
overgrowntangled
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Words with an opposite meaning
barrenmanicured
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