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

  • (..) this weapon can be considered water-resistant. Many techniques have been developed to seal the muzzle of the weapon. - Nothing, however, surpasses the technique developed in my time. - Crazy. Wild. Shut up, Slovnik. Boat six: Wickwire, McCool, Flea, Cortez, Slovnik and O'Neil. Oh, come on. (..)
    1997 G.I. Jane
  • (..) I now turn you over... to my Command Master Chief John James Urgayle. Attention! Instructors, stand easy. I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough... without ever having felt sorry for itself. (..)
    1997 G.I. Jane