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

  • (..) She didn't write me. -She's gone and got sick, Miss Scarlett. -Sick? Just a little bit sick, that's all. Your pa was wild when they wouldn't let him fight 'cause of his broken knee. He had fits when they took us field hands to dig ditches for white soldiers to hide in. But your ma says (..)
    1939 Gone with the Wind
  • (..) I'll live on it the rest of my life. Goodbye. When the war is over, Ashley. When the war is over. And there's a place back home... ...where a wild plum tree comes to flower in the springtime. Down by the creek, you know. Yes, I know, I know. When we were little, my brother, Jeff, and I used to.... (..)
    1939 Gone with the Wind