wild

Definition

  • noun: a large area of land where people do not live and where plants, trees, etc., grow freely
  • noun: a sparsely inhabited or uncultivated region or tract
  • adjective: living in nature without human control or care
  • adjective: living in a state of nature and not ordinarily tame or domesticated
  • synonyms: wilderness, native, desert

Examples

  • The company was successful 'beyond my wildest dreams/fantasies'. [=much more successful that I ever thought possible]

  • He has some pretty 'wild' [='strange'] ideas about raising children.

  • The party was getting kind of 'wild' [=out of control] so we left.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Jealousy... ...does not become you, my friend. Move it, men! Pile those Persians high. For unless I miss my guess... ...we're in for one wild night. They have served the dark will of Persian kings for years. Eyes as dark as night. Teeth filed to fangs. Soulless. (..)
    2006 300
  • (..) By rod and lash the boy was punished... ...taught to show no pain, no mercy. Constantly tested, tossed into the wild. Left to pit his wits and will against nature's fury. It was his initiation... ...his time in the wild... ...for he would return (..)
    2006 300