wild

(wīld)

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.

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.

Related Forms:

• wildˈly adverb

• wildˈness noun