wild

Meanings

Adjective

• Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).
• From or relating to wild creatures.
• Unrestrained or uninhibited.
• Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
• Of unregulated and varying frequency.
• Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
• Furious; very angry.
• Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
• Enthusiastic.
• Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
• Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
• Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
• Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
• Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
• Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
• Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.

Adverb

• Inaccurately; not on target.
• Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.

Noun

• The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
• A wilderness.
• Alternative of weald

Verb

• To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.

Origin

• From Middle English wild, wilde, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel-.
• Cognate with West Frisian wyld, Dutch wild, German wild, Danish vild, Swedish vild, Norwegian vill, Icelandic villtur.