wild

(wīld)

adj. wild·er, wild·est

1. Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed: wild geese; edible wild plants.

2. Not inhabited or farmed: remote, wild country.

3. Uncivilized or barbarous.

a. Lacking supervision or restraint: wild children living in the street.

b. Disorderly; unruly: a wild scene in the school cafeteria.

c. Characterized by a lack of moral restraint; dissolute or licentious: recalled his wild youth with remorse.

5. Lacking regular order or arrangement; disarranged: wild locks of long hair.

6. Full of, marked by, or suggestive of strong, uncontrolled emotion: wild with jealousy; a wild look in his eye; a wild rage.

7. Extravagant; fantastic: a wild idea.

8. Furiously disturbed or turbulent; stormy: wild weather.

9. Risky; imprudent: wild financial schemes.

10.

a. Impatiently eager: wild to get away for the weekend.

b. Informal Highly enthusiastic: just wild about the new music.

11. Based on little or no evidence or probability; unfounded: wild accusations; a wild guess.

12. Deviating greatly from an intended course; erratic: a wild bullet.

13. Games Having an equivalence or value determined by the cardholder's choice: playing poker with deuces wild.

adv.

In a wild manner: growing wild; roaming wild.

1. A natural or undomesticated state: returned the zoo animals to the wild; plants that grow abundantly in the wild.

2. often wilds A region that is mostly uninhabited or uncultivated: the wilds of the northern steppes.

intr.v. wild·ed, wild·ing, wilds

To go about in a group threatening, robbing, or attacking others.

[Middle English wilde, from Old English.]

wild′ly adv.

wild′ness n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	wildness - a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger" abandon passion, passionateness - a strong feeling or emotion
	2.	wildness - the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, vehemence, violence, fury intensiveness, intensity - high level or degree; the property of being intense savageness, savagery - the property of being untamed and ferocious; "the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums"
	3.	wildness - an unruly disposition to do as one pleases; "Liza had always had a tendency to wildness"; "the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention" fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness - the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
	4.	wildness - an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature intractability, intractableness - the trait of being hard to influence or control domestication, tameness - the attribute of having been domesticated

wildness

noun

1. An uninhabited region left in its natural state:

bush, wild, wilderness.

2. The quality or condition of being unruly:

disorderliness, fractiousness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unruliness, untowardness.

3. A complete surrender of inhibitions:

abandon, abandonment, incontinence, unrestraint, wantonness.

Translations

وَحْشِيَّه

vildskab

tryllingur, ofsi

vahşîlikyabanîlik

未开化粗野野生

wildness

[ˈwaɪldnɪs] N

1. (= undomesticated state) [of animal, tribe, landscape] → estado m salvaje, lo salvaje; [of place] → estado m salvaje or agreste, lo salvaje, lo agreste

2. (= storminess) [of weather] → furia f; [of sea] → bravura f

3. (= lack of restraint) → desenfreno m; [of appearance] → lo desordenado
there was a look of wildness in his eyes → había algo de locura en su mirada

4. (= craziness, rashness) [of idea, plan, rumour] → lo descabellado, lo disparatado

5. (= haphazardness) [of shot] → lo errático

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wildness

[ˈwaɪldnɪs] n

[mountains, landscape] → beauté f sauvage; [life] → tumulte m
He had come to love the danger and the wildness of his life → Il avait appris à aimer le danger et le tumulte de sa vie.

[person] → côté m tout-fou

[eyes, expression] → lueur f sauvage
She stared at him with wildness in her eyes → Elle le fixait, une lueur sauvage dans ses yeux.wild rice n → riz m sauvageWild West n
the Wild West → le Far West

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wildness

(= rough, uncivilized state) → Wildheit f

(of storm etc) → Wildheit f, → Stärke f, → Heftigkeit f; the wildness of the weather → das rauhe or stürmische Wetter

(= frenzy, unruliness) → Wildheit f

(= extravagance) (of promise) → Unüberlegtheit f; (of exaggeration) → Maßlosigkeit f; (of fluctuations) → Stärke f; (of expectations, imagination) → Kühnheit f

(= lack of aim) → Unkontrolliertheit f; (= erratic nature: of spelling) → Unsicherheit f

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wildness

[ˈwaɪldnɪs] n (gen) → violenza; (of countryside, scenery) → aspetto selvaggio; (of the weather) → avversità
the wildness of his appearance → il suo aspetto selvaggio
the wildness of her imagination → la sua fervida immaginazione

wild

(waild) adjective

1. (of animals) not tamed. wolves and other wild animals.

2. (of land) not cultivated.

3. uncivilized or lawless; savage. wild tribes.

4. very stormy; violent. a wild night at sea; a wild rage.

5. mad, crazy, insane etc. wild with hunger; wild with anxiety.

6. rash. a wild hope.

7. not accurate or reliable. a wild guess.

8. very angry.

ˈwildly adverb

ˈwildness noun

ˈwildfire: spread like wildfire

(of eg news) to spread extremely fast.

ˈwildfowl noun plural

wild birds, especially water birds such as ducks, geese etc.

ˌwild-ˈgoose chase

an attempt to catch or find something one cannot possibly obtain.

ˈwildlife noun

wild animals, birds, insects etc collectively. to protect wildlife.

in the wild

(of an animal) in its natural surroundings. Young animals have to learn to look after themselves in the wild.

the wilds

the uncultivated areas (of a country etc). They're living out in the wilds of Australia somewhere.

the Wild Westwest