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

  • (..) interior, and to find the revolutionary spirit. Not more being poisoned for the thought of escaping. And while in route to the long thing of this earth, I get lost in the wild thing. Alexander Supertramp. May of . University of Emory, Atlanta Georgia. Two years before the "Magic" bus... (..)
    2007 Into the Wild
  • (..) Hey, waits a moment. He/she takes this, they will maintain your dry feet, any problem calls me, the number is inside the boots. Thank you. Now I began to walk... ... TOWARD THE WILD THING. Hello... Is somebody here? That he/she comes from front! Two years to be here. (..)
    2007 Into the Wild