Wild

Adjective

 * 1) Untamed; not domesticated.
 * The island of Chincoteague is famous for its wild horses.
 * 1) Unrestrained or uninhibited.
 * I was filled with wild rage when I discovered the infidelity, and punched a hole in the wall.
 * 1) Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
 * The fraternity was infamous for its wild parties, which frequently resulted in police involvement.
 * 1) Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
 * Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party.
 * 1) Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
 * After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.
 * 1) Enthusiastic.
 * I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option.
 * 1) Inaccurate.
 * ''The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target.
 * 1)  Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Antonyms

 * tame

Derived terms

 * in the wild
 * wild and woolly
 * wild animal
 * wild blueberry
 * wild boar
 * wild card
 * wildcard
 * wildcarrot
 * wild cat
 * wildcat
 * wildcat strike
 * wildcatter
 * wildcrafting
 * wild cherry
 * wildebeest
 * wilden


 * wilder
 * wilderness
 * wildest
 * wild-eyed
 * wildfire
 * wildflower
 * wildfowl
 * wild geranium
 * wild ginger
 * wild goose
 * wild goose chase
 * wild-goose chase
 * wild hyacinth
 * wilding
 * wildish


 * wild land
 * wildlife
 * wildly
 * wild mustard
 * wildness
 * wild oat
 * wild pitch
 * wild purslane
 * wild rice
 * wild rye
 * wild strawberry
 * wild turkey
 * wild vanilla
 * Wild West
 * wildwood

Adverb

 * 1) Inaccurately; not on target.
 * The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.

Noun

 * 1) The undomesticated state of a wild animal
 * After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild
 * 1)  a wilderness

Verb

 * 1) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
 * 2) * 1989, David E. Pitt, Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours, New York Times (April 22, 1989), page 1:
 * ...Chief of Detectives Robert Colangelo, who said the attacks appeared unrelated to money, race, drugs, or alcohol, said that some of the 20 youths brought in for questioning has told investigators that the crime spree was the product of a pastime called "wilding".
 * "It's not a term that we in the police had heard before," the chief said, noting that the police were unaware of any similar incident in the park recently. "They just said, 'We were going wilding.' In my mind at this point, it implies that they were going to raise hell."...

Adjectives for Wild
vast; impenetrable; sequestered; hidden; unapprehensive; dawning; fretted; luscious; untrodden; dreary.

Adverbs for Wild
apparently; terribly; unmanageably; rankly; rampantly; fantastically; outrageously; outlandishly; savagely; ungovernably; naturally; inexpressibly; inordinately; boisterously; crazily; frantically; unconscionably; inveterately; hopelessly; manifestly; extraordinarily; pestiferously.

Thesaurus
Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Dionysiac, Gothic, Neanderthal, Sahara, abandoned, absurd, accident-prone, addled, adventurous, agitated, agrarian, amok, anarchic, angry, animal, 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-defying, debauched, defiant, delirious, demented, demoniac, deranged, desert, desolation, desperate, devil-may-care, 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, 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, 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, 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

Etymology
wilde

Adjective

 * Arabic: (mutawáħħeš)
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian: див (div), дива (diva) , диво (divo)
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 野生的 (yěshēng-de)
 * Croatian: divalj,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 野生の (やせいの, yasei no)


 * Korean: 야생의 (yasaeng-ui)
 * Lao: (paa)
 * Latin:, ferus, fera, ferum, silvestris, silvestre, silvestre
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Polish: dziki, dzika , dzikie
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: дивљи, дивљачки
 * Roman: divlji, divljački
 * Slovene: divji, divja , divje
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Croatian: divalj, razuzdan
 * Danish:


 * Esperanto:
 * Irish:
 * Latin: ferus, fera, ferum, saevus, saeva, saevum, crudelis, crudele, immanis, immane
 * Mandarin: 野狂
 * Norwegian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Adjective

 * 1) wild

Noun

 * 1) game (food)

Etymology
From *undefined:, from.

Anagrams

 * lidw.

Adjective

 * 1) wild

Etymology
Old High Germanic wildi

Noun
wild


 * 1) birth

Etymology
From Arabic (wálada, to give birth).