wild

Meaning

1. Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).
2. From or relating to wild creatures.
3. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
4. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
5. Of unregulated and varying frequency.
6. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
7. Furious; very angry.
8. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
9. Enthusiastic.
10. Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
11. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
12. Hard to steer.
13. Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
14. (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
15. Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
16. Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.

savage

turkey

natural state

growing wild

in disarray

running wild

raving mad

fighting mad

be wild

uncultivated land

in the bush

wild behavior

brainish

forest-born

forestborn

not quelled

relating to a forest

difficult to tame

pertaining to the desert

unpeaceable

gatuous

unkempt person

wild and wooly

domesticated animal

get angry

of easy virtue

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/waɪld/

From Middle English wild, wilde, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair, wool, grass, ear (of corn), forest”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian wyld, Dutch wild, German wild, Danish vild, Swedish vild, Norwegian vill, Icelandic villtur.