wild
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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Etymology: From Middle English weilde, wield, wielde, wijlde, wild, wilde, wyld, wylde, wyled, wyyld, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz (“wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair; wool”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian wil (“wild”), Saterland Frisian wíeld, wüüld (“wild”), West Frisian wyld (“wild”), Bavarian wüd (“wild”), Central Franconian weld (“wild”), Cimbrian bill (“crazy, mad; wild; stupid”), Dutch, German, and Low German wild (“wild”), Luxembourgish wëll (“wild; savage”), Vilamovian wyłd (“wild”), Yiddish ווילד (vild, “wild; savage”), Danish and Swedish vild (“wild”), Faroese villur (“wild”), Icelandic villtur (“wild; lost; barbaric, savage; uncultivated; untamed”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vill (“wild”), vill (“lost”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (wilþeis, “wild”); also Cornish gwlan (“wool”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic olann (“wool”), Manx ollan (“wool”), Welsh gwlân (“wool”), Latin vellus (“fleece, wool”), villus (“hair, shaggy hair”), Ancient Greek λάχνη (lákhnē, “woolly hair; thin hair; soft nap or pile on cloth; quills hedgehog; leafage”), Lithuanian valai (“hair of the horse tail”), Belarusian во́лас (vólas, “single hair”), Czech and Slovak vlas (“single hair”), Macedonian влас (vlas, “fluff; thread (of hair)”), Polish włos (“single hair”), Russian and Ukrainian во́лос (vólos, “single hair”), Serbo-Croatian вла̑с, vlȃs (“single hair”), Slovene las (“hair on top of head; nap, pile”), Armenian գեղմ (geġm, “fleece, wool”), Central Kurdish پرچ (pirç, “fax, headhair”), Northern Kurdish hirî (“wool”), Persian گرس (gors, “curl, ringlet; braid”), Hittite 𒋠𒀸 (SÍG-aš, “wool”), Tocharian A urṇ (“the circles of white hair between the brows of the Buddha or other deity”), Tocharian B *ūrṇ (“the circles of white hair between the brows of the Buddha or other deity”), Sanskrit वल्श (valśa, “branch, shoot, twig”).
Inflected forms:
form: wilder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wildest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wilde
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wyld
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wilde
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wyld
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wilds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wilde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wyld
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wilds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wilding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wilded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wilded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wilde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wyld
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Untamed; not domesticated.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: indigenous
Przewalski's horses are the only remaining wild horses, although there are many feral horses throughout the world.
In this region, the wild boars can be dangerous, but (perhaps counterintuitively) the feral hogs can be even worse.
noli me tangere for Ceſars I ame
and wylde for to hold though I ſeme tame
Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and deſert caves, / With wilde Thyme and the gadding Vine o'regrown,
Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
gloss: Untamed; not domesticated.
pos: adj
gloss: From or relating to wild creatures.
pos: adj
examples: wild honey
gloss: Unrestrained or uninhibited.
pos: adj
examples: I was filled with wild rage when I discovered the infidelity, and punched a hole in the wall.
Forgive these wild and wandering cries,
⁠Confusions of a wasted youth;
⁠Forgive them where they fail in truth,
And in thy wisdom make me wise.
gloss: Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
pos: adj
examples: The fraternity was infamous for its wild parties, which frequently resulted in police involvement.
Those most rural routes will not get overhead wires. As Reeve told the seminar: "Even in my wildest dreams, I can't see a business case for electrifying the Far North Line."
gloss: Of unregulated and varying frequency.
pos: adj
examples: The aircraft's navigational equipment should not be powered from the wild AC bus except in an emergency, as its computers can be damaged by variations in electrical frequency.
gloss: Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
pos: adj
examples: Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party.
City, in contrast, were lethargic in every area of the pitch and their main contribution in the first half-hour was to keep referee Phil Dowd busy, with Micah Richards among four of their players booked early on, in his case for a wild lunge on Young.
gloss: Furious; very angry.
pos: adj
gloss: Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
pos: adj
examples: After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.
gloss: Enthusiastic.
pos: adj
examples: I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option.
gloss: Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
pos: adj
examples: The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target.
gloss: Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
pos: adj
examples: a wild roadstead
gloss: Hard to steer.
pos: adj
gloss: Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
pos: adj
gloss: Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Did you hear? Pat won the lottery! — Wow, that's wild!
gloss: Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
pos: adj
examples: In this card game, aces are wild: they can take the place of any other card.
We define a pattern as a valid GP subtree that might contain wild characters [i.e. wildcards] in any of its nodes.
gloss: Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
pos: adj
examples: a wild track; wild sound
gloss: Inaccurately; not on target.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.
gloss: Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Let's record it wild.
gloss: The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
pos: noun
tags: singular
with-definite-article
examples: After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild.
gloss: A wilderness.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
Thus every good his native wilds impart
Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;
And e’en those ills that round his mansion rise
Enhance the bliss his scanty funds supplies.
gloss: Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
pos: noun
gloss: To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: ...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."...
Now is they wildin with us / And getting rowdy with us.
gloss: (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: They had a big influence on me. They had a big influence on Brooklyn period. I like the nonsense. [laughs] They were wildin'. Everyone in Brooklyn was liking that shit. They're wildin'. Their story in the stu, it gets deep.
Kinsey posted a clip of the incident alongside a caption that reads: "Damn the ER in Tulsa be wildin'."
The Ringer's Culture/NBA writer Wosney Lambre said it best: "I think it's a bad look for the players to be wilding on the fans like this. Fair or not, the players are held to a higher standard of decorum than the loser fans. It is what it is."
Synonyms: feral
ferine
indomite
savage
tameless
uplandish
untame
untamed
wild
Antonyms: broken
docile
domesticated
tame
Related words: aggressive
animalistic
animallike
fierce
Derived words: African wild ass
African wild donkey
American wild plum
Asian wild horse
buck wild
common wild oat
deuces wild
go wild
half-wild
hog-wild
Mongolian wild horse
run wild
semi-wild
Somali wild ass
sow wild oats
sow one's wild oats
take a walk on the wild side
walk on the wild side
wild allspice
wild almond
wild and woolly
wild and wooly
wild aneth
wild-animal
wild animal
wild as a Tuckernuck steer
wild as a wet hen
wild asparagus
wild-ass
wild ass
wild bachelor's button
wild bachelor's-button
wild balsam apple
wild basil
wild bergamot
wild betel
wild blueberry
wild blue yonder
wild boar
wild buckwheat
wild bugloss
wild cabbage
wild candytuft
wild cane
wild card
wildcard
wild-card
wild carrot
wildcat
wildcat strike
wildcatter
Wild Cattle Creek
wild-cat
wild cat
wild-caught
wild celery
wild chamomile
wild cherry
wild chicory
wild child
wild cotton
wildcrafting
wild cucumber
wild cumin
wild custard apple
wild dill
wild dog
Wild Dog Valley
wild drake
wild duck
wildebeest
wild eggplant
wild elder
wilden
wild endive
wilder
wilderness
wildest
wild-eyed
wild feed
wildfire
wildflower
wild flower
wildfowl
wild foxtail millet
wild garlic
wild geranium
wild ginger
wild goat
wild goose
wild-goose plum
wild guess
wild haggis
wild hair
wild horse
wild hyacinth
wild indigo
wilding
wild ipecacuanha
wild Irishman
wildish
wild land
wild leek
wild lettuce
wild licorice
wild life
wildlife
wild lily-of-the-valley
wild line
wild loquat
wildly
wild mammee
wild mango
wild mangosteen
wild man syndrome
wild man
wild-man
wild mare's milk
wild marjoram
wild mint
wild mustard
wildness
wild oat
wild oats
wild olive
wild onion
wild orange
wild out
wild ox
wild pansy
wild passionfruit
wild pellitory
wild pieplant
wild pig
wild pigeon
wild pig syndrome
wild pink
wild pitch
wild plantain
wild plum
wild pointer
wild potato
wild potato vine
wild purslane
wild radish
wild rhubarb
wild rice
wild river
wild rosemary
wild rue
wild rye
wild senna
wild service tree
wild soursop
wild Spaniard
wild spinach
wild stonecrop
wild strawberry
wildstyle
wild succory
wild sweet potato
wild swimming
wild Syrian rue
wild take
wild teasel
wild thing
wild thyme
wild tobacco
wild track
wild turkey
wild turmeric
wild type
wild-type
wild vanilla
wild weasel
wild wee
Wild West
wild woman
wildwood
wild yam
in the wild
call of the wild
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: wild
lang: Albanian
word: egër
lang: Southern Altai
word: кийик
roman: kiyik
lang: Southern Altai
word: јерлик
roman: ǰerlik
lang: Southern Altai
word: эмтик
roman: emtik
lang: Southern Altai
word: казыр
roman: kazïr
lang: Southern Altai
word: калју
roman: kalǰu
lang: Southern Altai
word: ээн
roman: een
lang: Southern Altai
word: кижи јӱрбеген
roman: kiži ǰürbegen
lang: Southern Altai
word: ойлоок
roman: oylook
lang: Southern Altai
word: уйалчак
roman: uyalčak
lang: Arabic
word: مُتَوَحِّش
roman: mutawaḥḥiš
lang: Arabic
word: بَرِّيّ
roman: barriyy
lang: Arabic
word: شموس
roman: šamūs
lang: Arabic
word: بري
roman: bárri
lang: Arabic
word: بري
roman: bárri
lang: Armenian
word: վայրի
roman: vayri
lang: Aromanian
word: ayru
lang: Aromanian
word: aghru
lang: Assamese
word: বনৰীয়া
roman: bonoria
lang: Assamese
word: জংঘলী
roman: zoṅgholi
lang: Assamese
word: বনজ
roman: bonoz
lang: Asturian
word: montés
lang: Asturian
word: salvaxe
lang: Azerbaijani
word: vəhşi
lang: Belarusian
word: дзі́кі
roman: dzíki
lang: Central Bikol
word: maulam
lang: Bulgarian
word: див
roman: div
lang: Catalan
word: salvatge
lang: Chickasaw
word: imilhlha
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 野生
roman: yěshēng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 野
roman: yě
lang: Maore Comorian
word: nyeha
lang: Czech
word: divoký
lang: Danish
word: vild
lang: Dutch
word: wild
lang: Estonian
word: metsik
lang: Finnish
word: villi
lang: Finnish
word: kesytön
lang: Finnish
word: villi-
lang: French
word: sauvage
lang: Friulian
word: salvadi
lang: Galician
word: salvaxe
lang: Galician
word: fero
lang: Galician
word: bravo
lang: Georgian
word: ველური
roman: veluri
lang: German
word: wild
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃
roman: wilþeis
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃
roman: haiþiwisks
lang: Greek
word: άγριος
roman: ágrios
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄγριος
roman: ágrios
lang: Haitian Creole
word: sovaj
lang: Hebrew
word: בַּר
roman: bar
lang: Hebrew
word: פֶּרֶא
roman: pére
lang: Hindi
word: जंगली
roman: jaṅglī
lang: Hungarian
word: vad
lang: Icelandic
word: villtur
lang: Ido
word: sovaja
lang: Ingrian
word: diikkoi
lang: Ingrian
word: villi
lang: Italian
word: selvaggio
lang: Italian
word: selvatico
lang: Italian
word: brado
lang: Japanese
word: 野生の
roman: yasei no
lang: Kapampangan
word: lasip
lang: Kazakh
word: жабайы
roman: jabaiy
lang: Korean
word: 야생의
roman: yasaeng'ui
lang: Korean
word: 길들여지지 않은
roman: gildeuryeojiji aneun
lang: Kumyk
word: вагьши
roman: wahşi
lang: Kumyk
word: къыр
roman: qır
lang: Kumyk
word: къолгъа уьйренмеген
roman: qolğa üyrenmegen
lang: Kumyk
word: авлакъ
roman: awlaq
lang: Kumyk
word: адамсыз
roman: adamsız
lang: Kumyk
word: бош къоркъунчлу
roman: boş
lang: Kumyk
word: къутургъан
roman: quturğan
lang: Kumyk
word: башсыз
roman: başsız
lang: Kumyk
word: тамаша
roman: tamaşa
lang: Kumyk
word: тюрлю
roman: türlü
lang: Kumyk
word: чыгъынсыз
roman: çığınsız
lang: Kumyk
word: уялчан
roman: uyalçan
lang: Kumyk
word: мююшбаш
roman: müyuşbaş
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жапайы
roman: japayı
lang: Lao
word: ປ່າ
roman: pā
lang: Latin
word: ferōx
lang: Latin
word: ferus
lang: Latin
word: silvestris
lang: Latvian
word: mežonīgs
lang: Latvian
word: meža
lang: Lithuanian
word: laukinis
lang: Livonian
word: mõtsāli
lang: Livonian
word: mõtsā-
lang: Luxembourgish
word: wëll
lang: Macedonian
word: див
roman: div
lang: Malay
word: liar
lang: Malayalam
word: വന്യ
roman: vanya
lang: Malayalam
word: കാട്ട്
roman: kāṭṭŭ
lang: Māori
word: kuwao
lang: Māori
word: taewao
lang: Māori
word: mohoao
lang: Māori
word: tūwā
lang: Māori
word: pāwhara
lang: Mauritian Creole
word: sovaz
lang: Middle English
word: wilde
lang: Mon
word: ဂြိုပ်
lang: Mongolian
word: зэрлэг
roman: zerleg
lang: Norwegian
word: vill
lang: Occitan
word: salvatge
lang: Occitan
word: sauvatge
lang: Old English
word: wilde
lang: Old Prussian
word: pausts
lang: Old Prussian
word: pausto
lang: Old Prussian
word: paustan
lang: Persian
word: دد
roman: dad
lang: Persian
word: وحشی
roman: vahši
lang: Polabian
word: dai̯vĕ
lang: Polish
word: dziki
lang: Portuguese
word: selvagem
lang: Portuguese
word: silvestre
lang: Portuguese
word: bravio
lang: Quechua
word: sallqa
lang: Quechua
word: purun
lang: Quechua
word: k'ita
lang: Romanian
word: sălbatic
lang: Romansh
word: selvadi
lang: Romansh
word: salvadi
lang: Romansh
word: salvatg
lang: Romansh
word: sulvedi
lang: Romansh
word: sulvadi
lang: Russian
word: ди́кий
roman: díkij
lang: Sardinian
word: eremidu
lang: Sardinian
word: spédriu
lang: Sardinian
word: spérdiu
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: allaidh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fiadhaich
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: дивљи
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: дивљачки
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: диваљ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: необуздан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: divlji
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: divljački
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: divalj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: neobuzdan
lang: Sicilian
word: sarvaggiu
lang: Sicilian
word: sarbaggiu
lang: Slovak
word: divoký
lang: Slovak
word: divý
lang: Slovene
word: divji
lang: Spanish
word: salvaje
lang: Spanish
word: montaraz
lang: Swedish
word: vild
lang: Tagalog
word: mailap
lang: Tagalog
word: ligaw
lang: Tagalog
word: maliyap
lang: Talysh
word: vəhşi
lang: Tarantino
word: servagge
lang: Tat
word: vəhşi
lang: Telugu
word: పిచ్చి
roman: picci
lang: Thai
word: ป่า
roman: bpàa
lang: Tocharian B
word: col
lang: Turkish
word: vahşi
lang: Turkish
word: yabani
lang: Ukrainian
word: ди́кий
roman: dýkyj
lang: Urdu
word: جنگلی
roman: jangli
lang: Venetan
word: salvadego
lang: Venetan
word: salbego
lang: Vietnamese
word: hoang dã
lang: Welsh
word: gwyllt
lang: Welsh
word: diddofi