wild

Meaning

Adj

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

Adv

1. (not-comparable) Inaccurately; not on target.
2. (not-comparable) Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.

Noun

1. (singular, with-definite-article) The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
2. (in-plural) A wilderness.

Verb

1. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
2. (intransitive, slang) (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.

Noun

Alternative form of weald.

Opposite of

tame

Synonyms

savage

untamed

fierce

violent

crazy

ferocious

mad

rough

furious

feral

uncultivated

rude

unruly

uncivilized

wilderness

turbulent

angry

😠

ungovernable

unrestrained

frenzied

frantic

raging

dotty

waste

undomesticated

absurd

stubborn

stormy

dangerous

reckless

shy

barbaric

brutal

desolate

unsociable

impetuous

harmful

unfounded

hard

nonsensical

desert

🏜️

baseless

cruel

barbarian

fantastic

groundless

dissolute

rampant

rebellious

uncontrolled

Translations

sauvage

wild

selvaggio

salvaje

selvatico

silvestre

wild

άγριος

salvatge

selvagem

woest

furieux

Wildheit

Pronounced as (IPA)

/waɪld/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wild

Inherited from Old English: wilde

Cognate with Western Frisian: wyld

Cognate with Dutch: wild

Cognate with German: wild

Cognate with Danish: vild

Cognate with Swedish: vild

Cognate with Norwegian: vill

Cognate with Icelandic: villtur

In summary

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.

Sentences

The average lifespan in pikas is roughly seven years in the wild .