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1. Marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
   "wild talk"; "wild parties"
    
2. In a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
   "wild geese"; "edible wild plants"
   - untamed
    
3. In a state of extreme emotion
   "wild with anger"; "wild with grief"
    
4. Deviating widely from an intended course
   "a wild bullet"; "he threw a wild pitch"
    
5. (of colours or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
   "wild colours"; "wild shouts"
   - violent
    
6. Without a basis in reason or fact
   - baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted
    
7. Talking or behaving irrationally
   - raving mad
    
8. Involving risk or danger
   "a wild financial scheme"
   - hazardous, risky
    
9. Fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
   - fantastic
    
10. Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
    "a wild stretch of land"
    - godforsaken, waste
     
11. Intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
    - crazy, dotty, gaga
     
12. Without civilizing influences
    "wild tribes"
    - barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised [Brit]
     
13. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
    - angry, furious, raging, tempestuous

1. In an uncontrolled and rampant manner
   - rampantly
    
2. In a wild or undomesticated manner
   "growing wild"; "roaming wild"

1. A wild primitive state untouched by civilization
   "he lived in the wild"; "they collected mushrooms in the wild"
   - natural state, state of nature
    
2. A wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
   - wilderness

Sounds like: whiled, Wilde

Derived forms: wildest, wilder, wilds

See also: chaotic, dangerous, delirious, disorderly, enthusiastic, excited, feral, ferine, frantic, frenzied, inhospitable, insane, intense, intractable, mad, manic, noncivilised [Brit], noncivilized, passionate, savage, semi-wild, stormy, unbroken, uncontrolled, undomesticated, unquiet, unrealistic, unrestrained, unsafe, unsubdued, unsupported, wildly, wildness

Type of: geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region, state

Antonym: tame

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