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say it: wahyld
wild is an adjective, noun and adverb meaning "marked by extreme lack of restraint or control". It carries 17 recorded senses.
without a basis in reason or fact
“baseless gossip”
“the allegations proved groundless”
“idle fears”
“unfounded suspicions”
“unwarranted jealousy”
fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
“a fantastic idea of his own importance”
located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
“a desert island”
“a godforsaken wilderness crossroads”
“a wild stretch of land”
“waste places”
intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
“crazy about cars and racing”
“they are dotty about each other”
“gaga over the rock group's new album”
colloquialism
without civilizing influences
“barbarian invaders”
“barbaric practices”
“a savage people”
“fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient”
“wild tribes”
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger
“angry clouds on the horizon”
“furious winds”
“the raging sea”
a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
“he lived in the wild”
“they collected mushrooms in the wild”
a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
“it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers”
in a wild or undomesticated manner
“growing wild”
“roaming wild”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wild come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.