Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed.
- adjective Not inhabited or farmed.
- adjective Uncivilized or barbarous.
- adjective Lacking supervision or restraint.
- adjective Disorderly; unruly.
- adjective Characterized by a lack of moral restraint; dissolute or licentious.
- adjective Lacking regular order or arrangement; disarranged.
- adjective Full of, marked by, or suggestive of strong, uncontrolled emotion.
- adjective Extravagant; fantastic.
- adjective Furiously disturbed or turbulent; stormy.
- adjective Risky; imprudent.
- adjective Impatiently eager.
- adjective Informal Highly enthusiastic.
- adjective Based on little or no evidence or probability; unfounded.
- adjective Deviating greatly from an intended course; erratic.
- adjective Games Having an equivalence or value determined by the cardholder's choice.
- adverb In a wild manner.
- noun A natural or undomesticated state.
- noun A region that is mostly uninhabited or uncultivated.
- intransitive verb To go about in a group threatening, robbing, or attacking others.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being in a state of ebullition. Thus steel, solidifying in a mold, which is evolving gases, is said to be wild.
- noun An obsolete variant of
Weald , perhaps due to confusion with wild. - Self-willed; wayward; wanton; impatient of restraint or control; stirring; lively; boisterous; full of life and spirits; hence, frolicsome; giddy; light-hearted.
- Boisterous: tempestuous; stormy; violent; turbulent; furious; uncontrolled: used in both a physical and a moral sense.
- Bold; brave; daring; wight.
- Loose and disorderly in conduct; given to going beyond bounds in pleasurable indulgence; ungoverned; more or less dissolute, wayward, or unrestrained in conduct; prodigal.
- Reckless; rash; ill-considered; extravagant; out of accord with reason or prudence; haphazard: as, a wild venture; wild trading.
- Extravagant; fantastic; irregular; disordered; weird; queer.
- Enthusiastic; eager; keen; especially, very eager with delight, excitement, or the like.
- Excited; roused; distracted; crazy; betokening or indicating excitement or strong emotion.
- Wide of the mark or direct line, standard, or bounds.
- Living in a state of nature; inhabiting the forest or open field; roving: wandering; not tame; not domesticated; feral or ferine: as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat; a wild bee.
- Noting beasts of the chase, game-birds, and the like, which are noticeably shy, wary, or hard to take under certain circumstances: opposed to tame, 1 : as, the birds are wild this morning.
- Savage; uncivilized; ungoverned; unrefined; ferocious; sanguinary: noting persons or practices.
- Growing or produced without culture; produced by unassisted nature, or by wild animals; native; not cultivated: as, wild parsnip; wild cherry; wild honey.
- Desert; not inhabited; uncultivated.
- To escape from domestication and revert to the feral state.
- To escape from cultivation and grow in a wild state.
- See
Ipomæa . - A locomotive which by some accident or derangement has escaped from the control of its driver.
- A seesaw.
- The West Indian euphorbiaeeous tree Drypetes glauca.
- Gærtnera vaginata, of Réunion, without ground reported as a fit substitute for coffee: often misnamed mussænda.
- In the West Indies, a plant of the genus Tillandsia, especially T. utriculata.
- Synonyms and Rude, impetuous, irregular, unrestrained, harebrained, frantic, frenzied, crazed, fanciful, visionary, strange, grotesque.
- noun A desert; an uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a waste.
- noun plural Wild animals; game.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This animal (whose name is sometimes written "huanaca," though the pronunciation is the same with "guanaco" or "guanaca") is larger than the llama, and for a long time was considered merely as the wild llama, or the llama _run wild_, in which you will perceive an essential distinction.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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This animal (whose name is sometimes written "huanaca," though the pronunciation is the same with "guanaco" or "guanaca") is larger than the llama, and for a long time was considered merely as the wild llama, or the llama _run wild_, in which you will perceive an essential distinction.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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For all that, it was a wild boar, or rather a boar _ran wild_.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850
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The African species exists only in a wild state; and it would appear that individuals of this kind have been measured having the dimensions of the largest of the _wild_ Asiatic elephants.
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850
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She had been charged with being as wild as _haggards of the rock_; she therefore says, that _wild_ as her _heart_ is, she will tame it _to the hand_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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The term "wild goose" is a Celtic metaphor for the Holy Spirit: noisy, passionate, not easily tamed and tending to flock together.
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The term "wild goose" is a Celtic metaphor for the Holy Spirit: noisy, passionate, not easily tamed and tending to flock together.
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The term "wild goose" is a Celtic metaphor for the Holy Spirit: noisy, passionate, not easily tamed and tending to flock together.
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The term "wild goose" is a Celtic metaphor for the Holy Spirit: noisy, passionate, not easily tamed and tending to flock together.
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