'Wild' definitions:
Definition of 'wild'
From: WordNet
adverb
In an uncontrolled and rampant manner; "weeds grew rampantly around here" [syn: rampantly, wild]
adverb
In a wild or undomesticated manner; "growing wild"; "roaming wild"
adjective
Marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild talk"; "wild parties" [ant: tame]
adjective
In a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants" [syn: wild, untamed] [ant: tame, tamed]
adjective
In a state of extreme emotion; "wild with anger"; "wild with grief"
adjective
Deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "he threw a wild pitch"
adjective
(of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts" [syn: violent, wild]
adjective
Without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy" [syn: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild]
adjective
Talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic" [syn: raving mad, wild]
adjective
Involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme" [syn: hazardous, risky, wild]
adjective
Fanciful and unrealistic; foolish; "a fantastic idea of his own importance" [syn: fantastic, wild]
adjective
Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" [syn: godforsaken, waste, wild]
adjective
Intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy about cars and racing"; "he is potty about her" [syn: crazy, wild, dotty, gaga]
adjective
Without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes" [syn: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild]
adjective
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild]
noun
A wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild"; "they collected mushrooms in the wild" [syn: wild, natural state, state of nature]
noun
A wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers" [syn: wilderness, wild]
Definition of 'Wild'
From: GCIDE
- Wild \Wild\, a. [Compar. Wilder; superl. Wildest.] [OE. wilde, AS. wilde; akin to OFries. wilde, D. wild, OS. & OHG. wildi, G. wild, Sw. & Dan. vild, Icel. villr wild, bewildered, astray, Goth. wilpeis wild, and G. & OHG. wild game, deer; of uncertain origin.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat. [1913 Webster]
- Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey. [1913 Webster]
- The woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and gadding vine o'ergrown. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land. "To trace the forests wild." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy. "Valor grown wild by pride." --Prior. "A wild, speculative project." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- What are these So withered and so wild in their attire ? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes Wild work in heaven. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The wild winds howl. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Search then the ruling passion, there, alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or ?ewilderment; as, a wild look. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Naut.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Many plants are named by prefixing wild to the names of other better known or cultivated plants to which they a bear a real or fancied resemblance; as, wild allspice, wild pink, etc. See the Phrases below. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- To run wild, to go unrestrained or untamed; to live or untamed; to live or grow without culture or training.
- To sow one's wild oats. See under Oat. [1913 Webster]
- Wild allspice. (Bot.), spicewood.
- Wild balsam apple (Bot.), an American climbing cucurbitaceous plant (Echinocystis lobata).
- Wild basil (Bot.), a fragrant labiate herb ({Calamintha Clinopodium}) common in Europe and America.
- Wild bean (Bot.), a name of several leguminous plants, mostly species of Phaseolus and Apios.
- Wild bee (Zool.), any one of numerous species of undomesticated social bees, especially the domestic bee when it has escaped from domestication and built its nest in a hollow tree or among rocks.
- Wild bergamot. (Bot.) See under Bergamot.
- Wild boar (Zool.), the European wild hog (Sus scrofa), from which the common domesticated swine is descended.
- Wild brier (Bot.), any uncultivated species of brier. See Brier.
- Wild bugloss (Bot.), an annual rough-leaved plant (Lycopsis arvensis) with small blue flowers.
- Wild camomile (Bot.), one or more plants of the composite genus Matricaria, much resembling camomile.
- Wild cat. (Zool.) (a) A European carnivore (Felis catus) somewhat resembling the domestic cat, but larger stronger, and having a short tail. It is destructive to the smaller domestic animals, such as lambs, kids, poultry, and the like. (b) The common American lynx, or bay lynx. (c) (Naut.) A wheel which can be adjusted so as to revolve either with, or on, the shaft of a capstan. --Luce.
- Wild celery. (Bot.) See Tape grass, under Tape.
- Wild cherry. (Bot.) (a) Any uncultivated tree which bears cherries. The wild red cherry is Prunus Pennsylvanica. The wild black cherry is Prunus serotina, the wood of which is much used for cabinetwork, being of a light red color and a compact texture. (b) The fruit of various species of Prunus.
- Wild cinnamon. See the Note under Canella.
- Wild comfrey (Bot.), an American plant ({Cynoglossum Virginicum}) of the Borage family. It has large bristly leaves and small blue flowers.
- Wild cumin (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant (Lag[oe]cia cuminoides) native in the countries about the Mediterranean.
- Wild drake (Zool.) the mallard.
- Wild elder (Bot.), an American plant (Aralia hispida) of the Ginseng family.
- Wild fowl (Zool.) any wild bird, especially any of those considered as game birds.
- Wild goose (Zool.), any one of several species of undomesticated geese, especially the Canada goose ({Branta Canadensis}), the European bean goose, and the graylag. See Graylag, and Bean goose, under Bean.
- Wild goose chase, the pursuit of something unattainable, or of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose. --Shak.
- Wild honey, honey made by wild bees, and deposited in trees, rocks, the like.
- Wild hyacinth. (Bot.) See Hyacinth, 1 (b) .
- Wild Irishman (Bot.), a thorny bush (Discaria Toumatou) of the Buckthorn family, found in New Zealand, where the natives use the spines in tattooing.
- Wild land. (a) Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultivation. (b) Land which is not settled and cultivated.
- Wild licorice. (Bot.) See under Licorice.
- Wild mammee (Bot.), the oblong, yellowish, acid fruit of a tropical American tree (Rheedia lateriflora); -- so called in the West Indies.
- Wild marjoram (Bot.), a labiate plant (Origanum vulgare) much like the sweet marjoram, but less aromatic.
- Wild oat. (Bot.) (a) A tall, oatlike kind of soft grass ({Arrhenatherum avenaceum}). (b) See Wild oats, under Oat.
- Wild pieplant (Bot.), a species of dock ({Rumex hymenosepalus}) found from Texas to California. Its acid, juicy stems are used as a substitute for the garden rhubarb.
- Wild pigeon. (Zool.) (a) The rock dove. (b) The passenger pigeon.
- Wild pink (Bot.), an American plant ({Silene Pennsylvanica}) with pale, pinkish flowers; a kind of catchfly.
- Wild plantain (Bot.), an arborescent endogenous herb (Heliconia Bihai), much resembling the banana. Its leaves and leaf sheaths are much used in the West Indies as coverings for packages of merchandise.
- Wild plum. (Bot.) (a) Any kind of plum growing without cultivation. (b) The South African prune. See under Prune.
- Wild rice. (Bot.) See Indian rice, under Rice.
- Wild rosemary (Bot.), the evergreen shrub {Andromeda polifolia}. See Marsh rosemary, under Rosemary.
- Wild sage. (Bot.) See Sagebrush.
- Wild sarsaparilla (Bot.), a species of ginseng ({Aralia nudicaulis}) bearing a single long-stalked leaf.
- Wild sensitive plant (Bot.), either one of two annual leguminous herbs (Cassia Chamaecrista, and {Cassia nictitans}), in both of which the leaflets close quickly when the plant is disturbed.
- Wild service.(Bot.) See Sorb.
- Wild Spaniard (Bot.), any one of several umbelliferous plants of the genus Aciphylla, natives of New Zealand. The leaves bear numerous bayonetlike spines, and the plants form an impenetrable thicket.
- Wild turkey. (Zool.) See 2d Turkey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wild'
From: GCIDE
- Wild \Wild\, n. An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa. [1913 Webster]
- then Libya first, of all her moisture drained, Became a barren waste, a wild of sand. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wild'
From: GCIDE
- Wild \Wild\, adv. Wildly; as, to talk wild. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wild'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- absurd,
- accident-prone,
- addled,
- adventurous,
- agitated,
- agrarian,
- amok,
- anarchic,
- angry,
- animal,
- Arabia Deserta,
- at fever pitch,
- atrocious,
- audacious,
- bacchic,
- back,
- back country,
- back of beyond,
- back-country,
- backwood,
- backwoods,
- backwoodsy,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- baroque,
- barren,
- barren land,
- barrens,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- bestial,
- bewildered,
- beyond belief,
- beyond control,
- bizarre,
- blatant,
- bloody,
- blustering,
- blusterous,
- blustery,
- boisterous,
- bold,
- boondock,
- boondocks,
- borderland,
- brain-born,
- brash,
- breachy,
- breakneck,
- brush,
- brutal,
- brutish,
- bush,
- bush country,
- bushveld,
- carefree,
- careless,
- carried away,
- chaotic,
- clamorous,
- coarse,
- cockamamie,
- cocksure,
- confused,
- contumacious,
- corybantic,
- crazy,
- daredevil,
- daring,
- dashing,
- Death Valley,
- death-defying,
- debauched,
- defiant,
- delirious,
- demented,
- demoniac,
- deranged,
- desert,
- desolation,
- desperate,
- devil-may-care,
- Dionysiac,
- dirty,
- disorderly,
- dissipated,
- dissolute,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distraught,
- dream-built,
- dust bowl,
- ecstatic,
- enraged,
- enraptured,
- escaped,
- extravagant,
- fanatical,
- fanciful,
- fancy-born,
- fancy-built,
- fancy-woven,
- fantasque,
- fantastic,
- fast,
- febrile,
- feckless,
- feral,
- ferine,
- ferocious,
- feverish,
- fierce,
- fiery,
- fighting mad,
- fire-eating,
- florid,
- foolhardy,
- foolish,
- forests,
- forward,
- fractious,
- frantic,
- free,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- frontier,
- fulminating,
- fuming,
- furious,
- gallant,
- gay,
- go-go,
- Gothic,
- graceless,
- grotesque,
- haggard,
- harebrained,
- harsh,
- harum-scarum,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- heath,
- hectic,
- heedless,
- hellish,
- high-flown,
- hinterland,
- hog-wild,
- hopping mad,
- hotheaded,
- howling,
- howling wilderness,
- hurried,
- hysteric,
- hysterical,
- ill-bred,
- immoderate,
- impatient of control,
- impetuous,
- impolite,
- in a rage,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- incautious,
- incontinent,
- incorrigible,
- incredible,
- indocile,
- indomitable,
- indulgent,
- infatuated,
- infuriate,
- infuriated,
- inhuman,
- insane,
- insensate,
- insuppressible,
- intemperate,
- intoxicated,
- intractable,
- irrepressible,
- irresponsible,
- karroo,
- kill-crazy,
- knock-down-and-drag-out,
- knockabout,
- laughable,
- lax,
- lewd,
- licentious,
- like one possessed,
- loose,
- ludicrous,
- lunar landscape,
- lunar waste,
- mad,
- madbrain,
- madbrained,
- madcap,
- madding,
- maenadic,
- maggoty,
- malign,
- malignant,
- maniac,
- maniacal,
- merciless,
- mindless,
- monstrous,
- muddled,
- murderous,
- native,
- natural,
- Neanderthal,
- noncivilized,
- nonrestrictive,
- nonsensical,
- notional,
- obstreperous,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- orgiastic,
- ornery,
- out of control,
- out of hand,
- outback,
- outlandish,
- outpost,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overanxious,
- overdesirous,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overzealous,
- pandemoniac,
- passionate,
- perfervid,
- permissive,
- perplexed,
- perturbed,
- pitiless,
- poppycockish,
- possessed,
- precipitant,
- precipitate,
- precipitous,
- preposterous,
- presumptuous,
- primitive,
- profligate,
- rabid,
- raffish,
- raging,
- rakehell,
- rakehellish,
- rakehelly,
- rakish,
- rambling,
- rambunctious,
- rampageous,
- rampant,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- rash,
- ravening,
- raving,
- raving mad,
- ravished,
- recalcitrant,
- reckless,
- refractory,
- reinless,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- restive,
- revolutionary,
- ridiculous,
- riotous,
- rip-roaring,
- roaring,
- roaring mad,
- rococo,
- roisterous,
- rollicking,
- rough,
- rough-and-ready,
- rough-and-tumble,
- rowdy,
- rude,
- running mad,
- running wild,
- ruthless,
- Sahara,
- salt flat,
- sanguinary,
- savage,
- severe,
- shrewish,
- simmering,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- sporty,
- stark-raving mad,
- storming,
- stormy,
- swaggering,
- sylvan,
- tameless,
- tasteless,
- tempestuous,
- terrorist,
- the bush,
- thoughtless,
- timbers,
- tornadic,
- transported,
- troglodytic,
- troublous,
- tumultuous,
- turbulent,
- ultrazealous,
- unbiddable,
- unbridled,
- unchaste,
- unchecked,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncoerced,
- uncombed,
- uncompelled,
- unconstrained,
- uncontrollable,
- uncontrolled,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- uncurbed,
- undisciplined,
- undomesticated,
- unforced,
- ungentle,
- ungovernable,
- ungoverned,
- uninhabited region,
- uninhibited,
- unkempt,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmastered,
- unmeasured,
- unmoldable,
- unmuzzled,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unreined,
- unrepressed,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestrictive,
- unruly,
- unsubdued,
- unsubmissive,
- unsuppressed,
- untamed,
- untoward,
- up-country,
- uproarious,
- upset,
- vehement,
- vicious,
- violent,
- virgin,
- virgin land,
- virgin territory,
- volcanic,
- vulgar,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- waste,
- wasteland,
- weary waste,
- weird,
- whimsical,
- wild West,
- wild-ass,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- wilderness,
- wildness,
- wilds,
- woodland,
- woodlands,
- woods
Words containing 'Wild'
- Wilded,
- Wilding,
- Wildly,
- Wildness,
- wild about,
- wilde,
- To run wild,
- Wild Irishman,
- Wild Rose,
- Wild Spaniard,
- Wild allspice,
- Wild basil,
- Wild bean,
- Wild bee,
- Wild bergamot,
- Wild boar,
- Wild brier,
- Wild bugloss,
- Wild burnet,
- Wild camomile,
- Wild cat,
- Wild celery,
- Wild cherry,
- Wild cinnamon,
- Wild comfrey,
- Wild cumin,
- Wild drake,
- Wild elder,
- Wild endive,
- Wild fowl,
- Wild ginger,
- Wild goose,
- Wild honey,
- Wild hyacinth,
- Wild indigo,
- Wild land,
- Wild leek,
- Wild licorice,
- Wild madder,
- Wild mammee,
- Wild marjoram,
- Wild millet,
- Wild oat,
- Wild pieplant,
- Wild pigeon,
- Wild pink,
- Wild plantain,
- Wild plum,
- Wild potato,
- Wild radish,
- Wild rice,
- Wild rosemary,
- Wild rye,
- Wild sage,
- Wild sarsaparilla,
- Wild senna,
- Wild service,
- Wild sheep,
- Wild tamarind,
- Wild thyme,
- Wild turkey,
- Wild woad,
- Wild yam,
- hog wild,
- oscar wilde,
- run wild,
- wild West,
- wild angelica,
- wild apple,
- wild ass,
- wild beast,
- wild buckwheat,
- wild cabbage,
- wild calla,
- wild card,
- wild carrot,
- wild cavy,
- wild chamomile,
- wild chervil,
- wild clary,
- wild coffee,
- wild cotton,
- wild crab,
- wild cranberry,
- wild crocus,
- wild dog,
- wild duck,
- wild emmer,
- wild eyed,
- wild fig,
- wild flower,
- wild garlic,
- wild geranium,
- wild goat,
- wild hollyhock,
- wild hop,
- wild horse,
- wild hydrangea,
- wild liquorice,
- wild lupine,
- wild man,
- wild mandrake,
- wild mango,
- wild medlar,
- wild mustard,
- wild oats,
- wild olive,
- wild onion,
- wild orange,
- wild ox,
- wild pansy,
- wild parsley,
- wild parsnip,
- wild pea,
- wild peach,
- wild peanut,
- wild pitch,
- wild pumpkin,
- wild quinine,
- wild rape,
- wild raspberry,
- wild sarsparilla,
- wild snapdragon,
- wild spinach,
- wild spurge,
- wild strawberry,
- wild swan,
- wild teasel,
- wild tobacco,
- wild vanilla,
- wild wheat,
- wild wilkworm,
- wild winterpea,
- wilde dagga,
- A wild goose chase,
- Canadian wild rice,
- Small wild bugloss,
- Wild Peach Village,
- Wild Rose, WI,
- Wild balsam apple,
- Wild goose chase,
- Wild plum of America,
- Wild sensitive plant,
- Wild-cat,
- african wild ass,
- arizona wild cotton,
- asian wild ox,
- canada wild rye,
- nodding wild onion,
- semi-wild,
- slender wild oat,
- wild bill hickock,
- wild blue yonder,
- wild cherry tree,
- wild china tree,
- wild climbing hempweed,
- wild lily of the valley,
- wild mango tree,
- wild meadow lily,
- wild medlar tree,
- wild oat grass,
- wild plum tree,
- wild potato vine,
- wild red oat,
- wild service tree,
- wild sweet pea,
- wild water lemon,
- wild west show,
- wild yellow lily,
- wild-eyed,
- To sow one's wild oats,
- Wild Peach Village, TX,
- sow one's wild oats,
- wild morning-glory,
- wild sweet potato vine,
- wild-goose chase,
- buffalo bill's wild west show,
- oscar fingal o'flahertie wills wilde