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wild

adj
/ˈwaɪ̯ld/

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 vild (“wild”), Faroese villur (“wild”), Icelandic villtur (“wild; lost; barbaric, savage; uncultivated; untamed”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vill (“wild”), Swedish vild (“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”).

  1. derived from *h₂welh₁-✻ — “hair; wool”
  2. inherited from *wilþijaz✻ — “wild”
  3. inherited from *wilþī✻
  4. inherited from wilde
  5. inherited from weilde

Definitions

  1. Untamed

    Untamed; not domesticated.

    • 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.

  2. From or relating to wild creatures.

    • wild honey

  3. Unrestrained or uninhibited.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 23 more definitions

    1. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.

      • 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."

    2. Of unregulated and varying frequency.

      • 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.

    3. Visibly and overtly anxious

      Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.

      • Her mother was wild with fear when she didn't return home after the party.

    4. Furious

      Furious; very angry.

    5. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.

      • After a week on the trail without a mirror, my hair was wild and dirty.

    6. Enthusiastic.

      • I'm not wild about the idea of a two day car trip with my nephews, but it's my only option.

    7. Very inaccurate

      Very inaccurate; far off the mark.

      • The novice archer fired a wild shot and hit her opponent's target.

    8. Exposed to the wind and sea

      Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.

      • a wild roadstead

    9. Hard to steer.

    10. Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

    11. Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.

      • Did you hear? Pat won the lottery! — Wow, that's wild!

    12. Very unexpected

      Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.

    13. Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer…

      Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.

      • 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.

    14. Of an audio recording

      Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.

      • a wild track; wild sound

    15. Inaccurately

      Inaccurately; not on target.

      • The javelin flew wild and struck a spectator, to the horror of all observing.

    16. Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.

      • Let's record it wild.

    17. The undomesticated state of a wild animal.

      • After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild.

    18. A wilderness.

      • 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.

    19. Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a…

      Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.

    20. To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a…

      To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.

      • Now is they wildin with us / And getting rowdy with us.

    21. (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.

      • 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'."

    22. Alternative form of weald.

    23. A surname from Middle English originally referring to a wild person, or for someone…

      A surname from Middle English originally referring to a wild person, or for someone living in uncultivated land.

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Derived

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 · +142 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at wild. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at wild. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at wild

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA