wild

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   marked by extreme lack of restraint or control

   wild talk

2. 2
   noun

   a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition

   it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers

3. 3
   noun

   a wild primitive state untouched by civilization

   They ventured out in the wild for a respite from their busy city lives.

4. 4
   adv

   in a wild or undomesticated manner

   growing wild

5. 5
   adj

   deviating widely from an intended course

   a wild bullet

6. 6
   adj

   in a state of extreme emotion

   wild with anger

7. 7
   adj

   Untamed; not domesticated.

   Near-synonym: indigenous

8. 8
   adj

   From or relating to wild creatures.

   wild honey

Etymology

From Middle English wild, wilde, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair, wool, grass, ear (of corn), forest”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian wyld, Dutch wild, German wild, Danish vild, Swedish vild, Norwegian vill, Icelandic villtur.