Wildness

wild  (wld)

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; savage.

4.

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 arrangment; 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.

n.

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

2. An uninhabited or uncultivated region. Often used in the plural: the wilds of the northern steppes.

intr.v. wild·ed, wild·ing, wilds Slang

To go about in a group threatening, robbing, or attacking others: "Police said that the youngsters ... were part of a larger group of teenagers who were 'wilding,'their slang for terrorizing and bullying" Maclean's.

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[Middle English wilde, from Old English.]

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wildly adv.

wildness n.

Thesaurus

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