Wild

Definition: Wild

Wild

Adjective

1. Marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild ideas"; "wild talk"; "wild originality"; "wild parties".

2. In a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants".

3. In a state of extreme emotion; "wild with anger"; "wild with grief".

4. Deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "a wild pitch".

5. (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts".

6. Not subjected to control or restraint; "a piano played with a wild exuberance"- Louis Bromfield.

7. Talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic".

8. Produced without being planted or without human labor; "wild strawberries".

9. Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places".

10. : without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes".

11. : (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea".

Adverb

1. In an uncontrolled and rampant manner; "weeds grew rampantly around here".

2. In a wild or undomesticated manner; "growing wild"; "roaming wild".

Noun

1. A wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild".

2. A wild and uninhabited area.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wild" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Wild \Wild\, adjective. [Comparative Wilder; superlative Wildest.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

WILD

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Wild

Avoidance

Adjective: unsought, unattempted; avoiding; Verb: neutral, shy of; (unwilling); elusive, evasive; fugitive, runaway; shy, wild.

Excitability

Vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap.

Excitation

Flaming; boiling over; ebullient, seething; foaming at the mouth; fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal.

Improbability

Adjective: improbable, unlikely, contrary to all reasonable expectation; wild, far out, out of sight, outtasight, heavy.

Inattention

Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful).

Insanity

Corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered; (uncertain).

Intemperance

Adjective: intemperate,inabstinent; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.

Plain

Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega.

Rashness

Adjective: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless; (neglectful); without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy; (inattentive); wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care.

Resentment

Fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless.

Unproductiveness

Waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness.

Unskillfulness

Unadvised; ill-advised, misadvised; ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted; unguided, misguided; misconducted, foolish, wild; infelicitous; penny wise and pound foolish; (inconsistent).

Violence

Adjective: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.

Vulgarity

Dowdy; slovenly; (dirty); ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi; (plebeian); uncourtly; uncivil; (discourteous); ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt.

Crosswords: Wild

Dutch (dreary, ferocious, savage, uncultivated, wild), German (berserk, boisterous, boisterously, bold, crook, deer, feral, ferocious, ferociously, fierce, frantic, furious, furiously, game, haggard, helter-skelter, illegal, rabid, rambunctious, rampant, riotous, riotously, rough, rugged, savage, savagely, truculently, undomesticated, ungovernable, unofficial, unruly, venison, wholesale, wild, wildcat, wildly).

Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

No, no, no. I want him fighting weally, wild, wavish animals by the mowning (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

Come away O human child To the waters and the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping Than you can understand (Artificial Intelligence: AI; writing credit: Ian Watson)

This is no fantasy - no careless product of wild imagination (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

Wild horses keep draggin' me away (Wild Horses; performing artist: Garth Brooks)

Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

Your existence makes me wild (Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche); performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: A. Bagge, A. Birgisson, C. Ogalde)

My favorite thing that drives me wild (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Wild and free I could feel the sun (Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

Old folks say, "My wild oats have turned to prunes and All Bran. (references; author: unknown)

Power Rangers Wild Force (2002)

Wild Bill (2002)

Hog Wild (1974)

Ob Dirndl oder Lederhose - gejodelt wird ganz wild drauflos (1974)

Last of the Wild (1974)

Wild Women (performing artist: The Big Three)

Wild Horses (performing artist: Garth Brooks)

Wild Night (performing artist: John Mellencamp with Me'Shell NdegéOcello)

Born To Be Wild (performing artist: Steppenwolf)

Wild, Wild West (performing artist: The Escape Club)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Wild Oats Markets, Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Bud, Sweat and Tees : A Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour (reference)

• Miracle Superfood: Wild Blue-Green Algae (reference)

• The Genesis Effect: Spearheading Regeneration With Wild Blue Green Algae (reference)

• 1-2-3 Draw Wild Animals: A Step by Step Guide (123 Draw) (reference)

• Acanthocephala of domestic and wild animals (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• California Wild (reference)

• Wild (reference)

• Wild Alabama (reference)

• Wild California (reference)

• Wild Foods Forum (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Wild Cats: Cry of Coda (reference)

• Girls: Wet & Wild in 3D (reference)

• National Geographic's Among the Wild Chimpanzees (reference)

• Alaska - Spirit of the Wild (Large Format) (reference)

• How To Find, Dig, Dry and Sell Wild American Ginseng and Goldenseal (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Sounds Of Aquatic Mammals In The Wild (5 CDs) [BOX SET] (reference)

• Wild Adapter [IMPORT] (reference)

• Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon; The Wild Bull (reference)

• Blue Wild Angel/Live At The Isle of Wight (Digipak) (reference)

• Everything I Touch Runs Wild (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• The Wild Thornberry's Movie (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Wild Berries Oval Platter (17") (reference)

• Wild Berries Pitcher (70-oz.) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

People involved in trapping and skinning wild carnivores, especially bobcats, should be extremely cautious about exposure to Y. pestis vectors. Credit: CDC.

Domesticated animals afflicted with dumb rabies may become increasingly depressed, and try to hide in isolated places, while wild animals seem to lose their fear of human beings, often appearing unusually friendly. Credit: CDC.

Observing with a Wild T-4 Theodolite. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Squinch observing with a Wild T-3 theodolite. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

4 diamondback terrapins about to be released in wild. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Young snapping turtles being released into the wild. The one on the left is underwater. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"The Southern Party on Board the Nimrod. Left to right - Wild, Shackleton, Marshall, Adams. In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume I, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 364. Library Call Number G149 S52. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Checking the angles - Wild T-2 theodolite carrying case in right foreground. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Photo #1 of sequence - The fishing vessel WILD GOOSE tying up. Credit: Fisheries.

Photo #2 of sequence - The fishing vessel WILD GOOSE tying up. Credit: Fisheries.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Laws politic, ordained for external order and regiment amongst men, are never framed as they should be, unless presuming the will of man to be inwardly obstinate, rebellious, and averse from all obedience to the sacred laws of his nature; in a word, unless presuming man to be, in regard of his depraved mind, little better than a wild beast, they do accordingly provide, notwithstanding, so to frame his outward actions, that they be no hindrance unto the common good, for which societies are instituted. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But here there was nothing to be shifted off in a wild speculation on the future

In Magdalen Park the deer are wild With joy, that Maggie brings Some bread a friend had given the child, To feed the pretty things

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason why he had had such a wild and successful life that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

She broke continually into shouts of a wild, inarticulate, and sometimes piercing music

He took the two candlesticks mechanically, and with a wild appearance

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land

Read locusts and wild honey

The wild doves flew up from the fences as the truck passed

The people in the streets walked fast, looked wild, their eyes fixed, and were generally in rags

Grow wild according to thy nature, like these sedges and brakes, which will never become English bay.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Most were in wild animals. (references)

Never approach a wild animal. (references)

Cook wild game meat thoroughly. (references)

Business

Wild dumping in and around these areas is common. (references)

Joint Ventures are associated with high risk. This sector is notorious for wild business practices and corruption. (references)

The American Wild West fascinates British travelers, and this type of gently rugged holiday appeals to families and the “soft adventure” group alike. (references)

Economic History

France

In addition, niche markets exist in France for candies, chocolate bars, wild rice and kosher foods which have shown a rising demand. (references)

France

Niche market opportunities also exist for regional American foodstuffs (Cajun, California Cuisine and Tex-Mex), candies and chocolates, wild rice, and organic and health food products. (references)

Bangladesh

The Sundarbans, an area of coastal tropical jungle in the southwest and last wild home of the Bengal Tiger, and the Chittagong Hill Tracts on the southeastern border with Burma and India, are the least densely populated. (references)

Human Rights

Paraguay

Recruits commonly charged that the military does not give them enough to eat and forces them to hunt wild animals or steal cattle for food. (references)

Political Economy

KUWAIT

A special import license is required to import certain kinds of goods, such as firearms, explosives, drugs and wild animals. (references)

PERU

Import licenses have been abolished for all products except firearms, munitions and explosives; chemical precursors (used in illegal narcotics production); ammonium nitrate fertilizer (which has been used as a blast enhancer for terrorist car bombs); wild plant and animal species; and some radio and communication equipment. (references)

Trade

Tanzania

There are no export controls other than for protected wild animals. (references)

Switzerland

Shipments of some vegetables, fresh fruits and wild plants must be accompanied by official plant health certificates of the country of origin. (references)

Nicaragua

A CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) permit is required for the export of wild and precious species, including precious woods. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A wild ass

Wild ass

A wild ass of them

Wild rat

Expressions using "wild": A wild goose chase ♦ a wild guess ♦ a wild scheme ♦ african wild ass ♦ african wild dog ♦ Arizona wild cotton ♦ asian wild ox ♦ be wild about ♦ be wild with terror ♦ become wild ♦ becoming wild ♦ Canada wild rye ♦ Canadian wild rice ♦ drive smb. wild ♦ drive wild ♦ get wild ♦ Glen Wild ♦ go on a wild goose chase ♦ go wild ♦ going wild ♦ gone wild ♦ grow wild ♦ grown wild ♦ half wild ♦ he has sown his wild oats ♦ in a fit of wild enthusiasm ♦ it is only a wild guess ♦ Jonathan Wild ♦ lead a wild life ♦ make wild ♦ nodding wild onion ♦ received with wild applause ♦ run wild ♦ saw one's wild oats ♦ send off on a wild goose chase ♦ sexually compatible wild relative ♦ slender wild oat ♦ small wild bugloss ♦ sow one's wild ♦ sow one's wild oats ♦ talk wild ♦ talk wild about ♦ the wild west ♦ To run wild ♦ To sow one's wild oats ♦ trail used by wild animals ♦ uttering wild prophecies ♦ wild about ♦ wild allspice ♦ wild ancestral relative ♦ wild and woolly ♦ wild angelica ♦ wild animal ♦ wild apple ♦ wild artichoke ♦ wild as an unbacked colt ♦ wild ass ♦ wild balsam apple ♦ wild basil ♦ wild bean ♦ wild beast ♦ wild bee ♦ wild bergamot ♦ Wild Bill Hickock ♦ wild blue yonder ♦ wild boar ♦ wild brier ♦ wild buckwheat ♦ wild bugloss ♦ wild burnet ♦ wild cabbage ♦ wild calla ♦ wild camomile ♦ wild card ♦ wild carrot ♦ wild cat ♦ wild cavy ♦ wild celery ♦ wild chamomile ♦ wild cherry ♦ WILD CHERRY BARK ♦ wild cherry tree ♦ wild chervil ♦ wild China tree ♦ wild cinnamon ♦ wild clary ♦ wild climbing hempweed ♦ wild coffee ♦ wild comfrey ♦ wild cotton ♦ wild crab ♦ wild cranberry ♦ wild crocus ♦ wild cumin ♦ wild dog ♦ wild drake ♦ wild duck ♦ wild elder ♦ wild emmer ♦ wild endive ♦ wild enthusiasm. Additional references.

Beginning with "wild": wild-bird, wild-born, wild-card, wild-cards, Wild-cat, wild-caught, wild-collected, wild-eyed, wild-fire, wild-flower, wild-flower-pressing, wild-flowers, wild-flying, wild-fowl, wild-fowlers, wild-fowling, wild-goose, wild-goose chase, wild-growing, wild-haired, wild-ice, wild-ish, wild-life, wild-living, wild-looking, wild-man, wild-men, wild-oat, wild-oats, wild-rose, wild-tangle, wild-type, wild-water, wild-west.

Ending with "wild": half-wild, semi-wild.

Containing "wild": Crp-wild-type.

Afrikaans

wilde vark (wild boar). (various references)

Albanian

xanxar (untamed), shkretëtirë (desert), primitiv (primal, primitive, primordial), i tërbuar (berserk, berserker, enraged, frantic, frenzied, furious, mad, rabid, rampageous, rampant, riotous), i shkretë (blessed, desert, deserted, desolate, devoid of inhabitants, inhospitable, lifeless, lonely, lonesome, poor, waste), i pashtruar (implacable, insubordinate, perverse, rebellious, restive, unlaid, unruly, unsubmissive), i papërmbajtur (demonstrative, ebullient, effuse, effusive, fiery, gushing, harum scarum, hot-blooded, hot-headed, Hotspur, immoderate, incontinent, intemperate, jazz, jazzy, lawless, out of hand, rampageous, rampant, unchecked, unconscionable, uncontained, uncontrollable, unreserved, unrestrained, wanton), i egër (atrocious, barbarous, bestial, cannibalic, cannibalish, cruel, despiteful, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, furious, merciless, outrageous, rabid, savage, snappish, tigerish, tigrish, vicious), i çmendur (anile, bedlamite, berserk, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, frantic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, muddy, non compos, not all there, phrenetic, underwit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مستسلم, ‏مسعور (crazy, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hydrophobic, mad, rabid), ‏همجي (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, heathen, hooligan, outlandish, ruffian, ruffianly, savage, skinhead, uncivil, uncivilised, undisciplined), ‏قفر (desert, tumble, waste, wasteland, wild land, wilderness), ‏وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, unfeeling, vicious, wanton), ‏غليظ (boor, churlish, coarse, hoarse, loutish, mannerless, robust, rugged, rustic, stodgy, strongarm, thick, ungainly, unmannerly), ‏على نحو جامح, ‏عاصف (boisterous, dirty, gusty, inclement, rough, squally, stormy, surging, tempestuous, thunderous, torricellian, tumultuous, unruly, winded, windy, wintry), ‏جامح (headstrong, inordinate, mad, madcap, raving, stubborn, unruly, wilful), ‏جاف (arid, becoming dry, boorish, brittle, churlish, crude, curt, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dry, dryish, gross, harsh, objectionable, rough, surly, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious), ‏الحالة البرية, ‏شاذ (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bastard, bizarre, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, far fetched, freak, intriguing, irregular, monstrous, moonstruck, odd, off beat, outlandish, preternatural, prodigious, queer, rogue, scatty, singular, stupendous, thumping), ‏بور, ‏بري حيوان, ‏بري (overland, sharpening, terrestrial). (various references)

Aymara

qolli (wild olive), muña (wild oregano), achulla (wild rat). (various references)

Bavarian

wuidsau (wild boar). (various references)

Blackfoot

saokiipisatsiinikimm (wild onion), iimitaohkatsi (wild strawberry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

напосоки (at random), дива местност, диво съществуване, диво състояние, плашлив (fearful, flighty, nervy, shy, skittish, spooky, timid, timorous), подивял (feral, grown wild, rogue, unsociable), произволно (arbitrarily), пущинак (common, waste, wasteland, wilderness), пуст (bleak, desert, deserted, desolate, drear, empty, harsh, inane, infernal, inhospitable, uncouth, uninhabited, vacant, vain, waste, yeasty), пустиня (desert, wilderness), пустош (desolation, moor, moorland, waste, waste land, wasteland, wilderness), безумен (cockeyed, frantic, insane, lunatic, mad), бесен (demonic, mad, rabid, raging, tearing, violent), див (barbarous, dark, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, frenzied, harsh, heathen, lupine, natural, orgiastic, rough, savage, tameless, uncivilized, uncultivated, untamed), луд (bedlamite, bonkers, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, kinky, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, off one's nut, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, possessed, potty, scatty, screwy), свободно състояние (loose), налудничав (mad, madcap, nutty, possessed, queer, whacked), наслуки (at a venture, at haphazard, at random, hit or miss, in a haphazard way), необитаем (uninhabitable), необмислен (blind, crude, hasty, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, light hearted, light-headed, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, rash, reckless, snap, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unguarded, unthinking, unwary), необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, mad, obstreperous, orgiastic, phrenetic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, riotous, tearaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, vagrant, wanton, zizzi), обезумял (berserk, distracted, frenzied, lunatic, mad, witless), вбесен (livid, red-hot, waxy), френетичен (frenetic), разрошен (dishevelled), рядко населена местност, ядосан съм, свободно съществуване, бурен (angry, blusterous, blustery, boiling, darnel, dirty, fierce, heavy, roaring, rogue, rough, rugged, stormy, tearaway, tempestuous, thunderous, turbulent, vehement, violent, weed). (various references)

Chinese 

野生 (undomesticated), 野 (boundary, field, limit, open space, plain, rude), 猖獗 (rampant, unchecked), 猖披 (unrestrained), 猖 (mad), 狂放, 瘋 (insane, mad), 埌 (wasteland). (various references)

Czech

divoký (boisterous, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, gone wild, obstreperous, truculent, uncivilized, unruly, untamed, wildcat). (various references)

Danish

vild (astray, ferocious, savage). (various references)

Dutch

woest (dreary, ferocious, fierce, furious, gaunt, savage), wild (dreary, ferocious, savage). (various references)

Esperanto

sovaĝa (savage). (various references)

Faeroese

villur (ferocious, savage). (various references)

Farsi 

وحشی (Barbaric, Barbarous, Brutal, Ferocious, Gross, Harebrained, Rambunctious, Ruffian, Ruttish, Savage, Truculent, Uncivil, Uncivilized, Undaunted, Ungovernable, Unshaped(En)), خودرو (Automobile, Automotive, Weedy), جنگلی (Sylvan), شیفته ودیوانه . (various references)

Finnish

villi (independent, savage), rasavilli (boisterous, mischief tomboy), kesytön (untamed), jylhä (gloomy, rough, rugged), hurja (frantic, furious, unrestrained, violent), huima (reckless), hillitön (ummanageable, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruly). (various references)

French

sauvage. (various references)

Frisian

wyld (ferocious, savage). (various references)

German

wild (berserk, boisterous, boisterously, bold, crook, deer, feral, ferocious, ferociously, fierce, frantic, furious, furiously, game, haggard, helter-skelter, illegal, rabid, rambunctious, rampant, riotous, riotously, rough, rugged, savage, savagely, truculently, undomesticated, ungovernable, unofficial, unruly, venison, wholesale, wildcat, wildly), verrückt (Batty, crack-brained, crazily, crazy, daft, daisy, demented, dementedly, insane, insanely, kinky, kooky, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, mentally unbalanced, mind-boggling, nuts, potty, psycho, raving, scatty, screwy, unbalanced, wackily, wacky, whimsical, zany). (various references)

Greek 

έρημη γη, ξέφρενοσ (frenetic, frenzied), μη σταθεροποιημένος, άγριοσ (black, feral, ferocious, fierce, harsh, lupin, lupine, sassy, savage, truculent, violent), άγριος (ferocious, fierce, harsh, savage, truculent). (various references)

Hebrew 

שממה (desolation, waste, wasteland, wilderness), פרוע (chaotic, disorderly, rampant, rank, riotous, tumultuous, turbulent, unruly), פראי (bestial, brutal, brute, feral, ferocious, fierce, savage, truculent), פרא אדם (ruffian, savage), פרא (savage, wild ass, wildcat), בר (except, open field, outside of, prairie, without), רותח (boiling, ebullient, furious, vehement). (various references)

Hungarian

vadon (boondocks, feral, wilderness). (various references)

Indonesian

liar, jalang (undomesticated, untamed), garang (cruel, ferocious, fierce, rampageous, savage, very strong, vivid), edan (crazy, frantic, insane, mad), buas (cruel, desolate, ferocious, furious, savage), binal (rebellious), beringas. (various references)

Irish

fiáin. (various references)

Italian

selvaggio (brutal, ferocious, frantically, haggard, primitive, rampant, savage, tigerish, tomboyish). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

荒い (rough, rude), 奔放 (extravagant, rampant, uninhibited). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すっとんきょう (harum-scarum, hysteric, in disarray), ワイルド , そぼう (hard, rude, violent), のそだち (untutored), ほんぽう (basic salary, extravagant, full pay, our country, rampant, regular salary, this country, uninhibited), あらい (coarse, rough, rude), あらあらしい (desolate, gruff, harsh, rough, rude, violent), やせい (rough, uncouth, unpolished), けたたましい (clamorous, loud, noisy, piercing, shrill), みかいたく (undeveloped), みこん (uncultivated, unmarried), とっぴ (erratic, extraordinary, offbeat), とんきょう (in disarray). (various references)

Korean 

강포한. (various references)

Manx

reeastane (heath, marshland, waste ground, wasteland), jeh chash (undisciplined, undisciplined as child, unruly), feie (natural, savage), feaynid (desert, expanse, expansiveness, extent, space, vagueness), fadane (solitude, uncultivated place, unfrequented place), faasagh (desert, desolate, waste place, wilderness). (various references)

Mohawk

kario (wild animal). (various references)

Papago

shahd (wild sweet potato). (various references)

Papiamen

brabu (ferocious, savage). (various references)

Pig Latin

ildway.(various references)

Portuguese

selvagem (barbaric, brutal, feral, goth, riderless, savage, truculent, unbacked, unsociable, wilding). (various references)

Romanian

nedomesticit (feral), îndrãcit (devilish, furious, furiously), înnebunit (mad, mad about), ameţit (bewildered, confounded, dizzy, flustered, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, muzzy, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, tipsy), cal sãlbatic (Bronco), delirant (delirious, frantic, light-headed, raving), frenetic (frantic, frantically, frenzied, phrenetic, phrenetically, violent), furios (desperate, enraged, fiery, frantic, furious, high, hot-headed, howling, in anger, irate, ireful, like fury, mad, passionate, raging, rampageous, robust, scowling, storming, wanton, wrathful), la întâmplare (aimlessly, anyhow, anyway, anywise, at a venture, haply), mistreţ (wild boar), neîmblânzit (cruel, indomitable, terrible, unbroken), în stare de sãlbãticie, nebunesc (crazy, desperate, foolish, insensate, lunatic, mad, madman's, nonsensical, reckless), sperios (shy, skittish, timorous), negândit (premature, rash, unthinking), nesãbuit (foolish, hare-brained, harum scarum, hell-bent, insensate, mad, rashly, reckless, recklessly), ovãz sãlbatic, pãduratic, pãdureţ, pãrãginit (fallow, rank, weed-grown), pustiu (bare, blank, bleak, desert, deserted, desolate, empty, gaunt, senseless, solitary, solitude, uninhabited, unoccupied, useless, waste, wilderness), rãtãcit (afield, haggard, stray, wandering), sãcret (deserted, lonely), sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild man), silhui (dense, desert), nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, distracted, distraught, extravagant, fool, foolish, frantic, frenzied, infatuated, insane, lunatic, mad, mad about, madcap, madman, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, raving, reckless, unruly). (various references)

Russian 

дикий (farouche, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, natural, orgiastic, savage, tameless, untamed). (various references)

Scottish

teididh, fiat , fiata. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slobodan život, razvratan (abandoned, cypriote, debauched, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, obscene, perverse), neobuzdan (harum scarum, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncurbed, ungovernable, unmeasured, unrestrained, unyoked), nenastanjen (inhabitable, uninhabited), fantastičan (fantastic, fantastical), divljina (savagery, wilderness), divlji (feral, ferine, unlicensed, wildcat), divalj (savage), bujan (ample, curvaceous, dense, exuberant, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, riotous, thick, torrential), besan (amok, amuck, furious, mad, sleepless). (various references)

Shona

tsambatsi (wild grape), muzhanje (wild loquat tree), mutsubvu (wild plum tree), mutongotowa (wild pear tree), mutarara (wild gardenia tree), muroro (wild custard apple tree), mudzambiringa (wild grape tree), mowa (wild spinach), michero yesango (wild fruit), karumanyemba (wild sweat pea), jero (wild lupin), huriti (wild green pigeon), humba (wild pig), bvukutiwa (wild speckled rock pigeon). (various references)

Spanish

fiero (ferocious, savage). (various references)

Swedish

vild (coltish, delirious, ding-dong, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frenetic, haggard, headlong, madcap, phrenetic, rampant, riotous, savage, truculant, truculent, untamed, wildcat), yster (coltish, frisky, skittish, wanton). (various references)

Thai

ทำเรื่องพิเรนในวัยรุ่น (sow one's wild oats). (various references)

Turkish

kızgın (angry, angry with, annoyed, ardent, baking, black, boiling, cross, dyspeptic, fervent, fierce, fiery, flaming, frowning, furious, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, huffy, in a glow, in a pet, in a tiff, incensed, indignant, indignantly, inflamed, irate, ireful, mad, pissed off, red-hot, snappish, sore, vexed, wroth), çılgın (berserk, bonkers, crackpot, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, demon, demoniac, desperado, distracted, foolhardy, frenetic, frenzied, insane, kook, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, moonstruck, nut, phrenetic, possessed, raving, rip roaring, ripsnorter, scatty), çılgınca (far out, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, like mad, tearing), azgın (desperate, excessive, fierce, furious, goatish, mad, rampageous, rampant, Randy, skittish), başıboş bir şekilde, barbar (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, goth, gothic, heathen, heathenish, savage, uncivilized, vandal, vandalic), dağınık (bedraggled, diffuse, disorganized, dispersed, messy, out of trim, ragged, scattered, scruffy, sick, straggling, straggly, unkempt, untidy), delişmen (madcap, rambunctious), ıssız (desert, deserted, desolate, forlorn, forsaken, isolated, retired, solitary, stark, unfrequented, uninhabited, void, waste, widowed), hovarda (chaser, dissolute, gadabout, gay, libertine, licentious, masher, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, rascal, riotous, rip, spark, sybarite, vagabond), yabani (bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, fair, feral, haggard, savage, untamed), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco), rasgele (aimlessly, at a venture, at haphazard, at random, by chance, desultory, freehand, haphazard, haphazardly, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, indiscriminate, offhand, promiscuous, random, scratch, stray), serkeş (disobedient, disorderly, fractious, Froward, rebellious, rounder, strongheaded, unruly, wanton), sinirli (apoplectic, apoplectical, bristly, choleric, discomposedly, edgy, high strung, hot-blooded, hot-headed, huffish, huffy, ill-conditioned, in a pet, irate, ireful, irritable, jumpy, liverish, mad, nervous, nervy, on edge, out of humor, out of humour, peeved, pissed off, ratty, shirty, short tempered, sinewed, sinewy, spunky, testy, uptight, waxy, wrought up), tenha (deserted, desolate, forsaken, unfrequented, uninhabited, widowed), vahşi (atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brute, churlish, feral, ferocious, haggard, heathen, heathenish, rude, savage, tigerish, truculent, uncivilized, wolfish), vahşice (atrocious, barbarically, barbarously, savagely), fırtınalı (angry, boisterous, dirty, gusty, heavy, inclement, intemperate, nasty, rough, rugged, squally, stormy, tempestuous, turbulent, ugly). (various references)

Turkmen 

яabany (out of control), hyrawa. (various references)

Ukrainian

самобутній (original), розбещений (abandoned, bad, corrupt, debauched, degenerate, depraved, filthy, licentious, miscreant, spoilt, wanton), штормовий (stormy, troubled), шалений (amok, amuck, boisterous, dithyrambic, ecstatic, fierce, frantic, frenzied, lunatic, mad, outrageous, pelting, stormy, unruly, vehement), гучний (altisonant, big, boffo, deep-mouthed, exclamatory, loud, orotund, reverberating, spoken, vocal), нецивілізований (feral, uncivil, uncivilized), невгамовний (fidgety, immitigable, indomitable, rambunctious, restless, sleepless, unbridled), необроблений (coarse, crude, natural, nontreated, raw, rough, uncultivated, undeveloped, undressed, unfinished, waste), незайманий (chaste, inviolate, untapped, zoned), навіжений (addle, balmy, barmy, extravagant, nut, nuts, nutty, screwball, wildcat), лякливий (flighty, jittery), бурхливий (blusterous, gusty, headlong, raging, stormy, tempestuous, turbulent, volcanic, wanton, windy), пустельний (desert, deserted, waste, wasteful), пустеля (desert, sands, solitudes, thirst, waste, wilderness), дикий (barbarian, barbarous, feral, ferine, natural, orgiastic, savage). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lung tung, b o táp rối, bừa b i (untidy), bừa b i tự do, chưa văn minh hoang vu, dại (bughouse, rabid), không người ở dữ dội, lộn xộn (chaotic, confused, farraginous, jumbly, messy, promiscuous, shop, skimble-scamble, straggling, straggly, topsyturvy, turbid), điên cuồng (demented, distracted, distraught, frantic, frenezied, insane, loco), liều mạng (dare-devil, desperate, devil-may-care), vu v, lung tung điên, man di, nhiệt liệt ngông cuồng, phóng túng (cavalier, licentious, loose), rồ dại (loco), thiếu đắn đo suy nghĩ, vùng hoang vu (waste, wilderness), lêu lổng (vagabond). (various references)

Welsh

gwyllt (mad, rapid, savage), gw+ydd (goose, presence), godrudd (furious), diffwys (awful, high, huge, steep, waste), chwidr (foolish, rash), anwaraidd (barbarous, cruel, savage, uncivilized), anwar (barbarian, barbarous, cruel, savage, wild man), annof, anial (desert, desolate, fine, grievous, wilderness), anhywaith (intractable, refractory, restless), anaraf. (various references)

Yucatec

k'o'ox (ferocious, savage). (various references)

agrestes, agrestia, agrestibus, agrestis, baccati, dementes, dementia, dementis, efferus, effrenus, fera, ferae, feram, feras, fere, feri, feris, feroci, ferocissimas, feros, ferus, furiosi, horrida, indomitus, insani, insanis, insanum, insanus, pheros, rudis, silvestre, silvestrem, silvestria, silvestris, torva, turbidam, turbido, vesani. (various references)

wildeoren. (various references)

wild. (various references)

cimmaron, mestengo. (various references)

feral. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "wild": wildcat, wildcats, wildcatted, wildcatter, wildcatters, wildcatting, wildebeest, wildebeests, wilder, wildered, wildering, wilderment, wilderments, wilderness, wildernesses, wilders, wildest, wildfire, wildfires, wildflower, wildflowers, wildfowl, wildfowler, wildfowlers, wildfowling, wildfowlings, wildfowls, wilding, wildings, wildish, wildland, wildlands, wildlife, wildling, wildlings, wildly, wildness, wildnesses, wilds, wildwood, wildwoods. (additional references)

Words ending with "wild": semiwild. (additional references)

Words containing "wild": bewilder, bewildered, bewilderedly, bewilderedness, bewilderednesses, bewildering, bewilderingly, bewilderment, bewilderments, bewilders. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wild" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aifld, Bwciod, dild, eild, Ewoldt, ild, iwd, iwl, jild, swild, twild, walad, walid, weidl, weild, wid, widg, wiiled, wijd, wil, wila, wilde, wildi, wildr, wilg, wili, Willm, Wilm, wiln, wilo, wilod, wilp, wipl, wird, wirld, wli, wliz, wrild, wuld, wyl, wyld, wyled. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lid.

-2 letters: id, li.

+1 letter: wield, wilds, wiled.

+2 letters: dewily, mildew, wailed, whiled, widdle, widely, wields, wieldy, wilder, wildly, willed, wilted, windle.

+3 letters: bawdily, dowdily, dwindle, indwell, indwelt, mildews, mildewy, oldwife, rowdily, swilled, swindle, swirled, twiddle, twiddly, twilled, twirled, waylaid, weedily, weirdly, welding, wergild, whirled, widdled, widdles, wielded, wielder, wiggled, wildcat, wilders, wildest, wilding, wildish, willied, wimbled, wimpled, windily, windled, windles, winkled, wintled, wordily.