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Definition of Wild

Wild Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat. Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey. Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America. Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead. Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look. Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel. An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa. Wildly; as, to talk wild. Related Definitions: Aid, An, And, Approached, As, Boar, Brought, By, Camomile, Care, Cat, Crazy, Cultivated, Culture, Desert, Disorderly, Domesticated, Easily, Emotion, Excitement, Exposed, Familiar, Fanciful, Ferocious, Field, Forest, Forth, Growing, Hard, Honey, Imaginary, In, Indicating, Inhabited, Inhabiting, Inordinate, Intense, Irregular, Land, Licentious, Living, Look, Man, Native, Natural, Nature, Not, Of, Open, Or, Ox, Parsnip, Prepared, Produced, Refined, Region, Regulation, Restraint, Roadstead, Rude, Said, Savage, Sea, State, Steer, Strawberry, Strong, Submitted, Talk, Tamed, Tempestuous, The, To, Tract, Training, Turbulent, Uncivilized, Vessel, Violent, Visionary, Waste, Wild, Wilderness, Wildly, Wind, With, Without

Wild Quotations An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. William Blake I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. David Herbert Lawrence Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. William Shakespeare Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life. Muhammad Ali

Wild Translations wild in Danish is vild wild in Dutch is woest, wild wild in German is ausgelassen wild in Italian is licenzioso wild in Latin is effrenus, ferus, indomitus, efferus wild in Portuguese is selvagem wild in Spanish is fiero, tempestuoso wild in Swedish is yster, vild

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